ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

We thank the father for the fulfillment of the promise by our lord Jesus Christ.

“But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost,

Whom the Father will send in my name,

He shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance,

Whatsoever I have said unto you.”

(John 14:26)

“In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said,

I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth,

That thou hid these things from the wise and prudent,

And hast revealed them unto babes: even so, Father;

For so it seemed good in thy sight.”

(Luke 10:21)

To the end that my glory may sing

Your praise and not be silent. O Lord my God,

I will give thanks to you forever!

(Psalm 30:12)

We thank the Father for the way

He has used his daughter towards the contribution

Of this wonderful book in the pain staking editing

And grammar corrections that has been made.

May our heavenly Father Leader Olumba Olumba Obu truly

Bless his daughter, Princess Baptiste for her work.

Thank You Father

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PG. CHAPTER TITLE

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WHAT IS BROTHERHOOD OF THE CROSS AND STAR

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AN OPEN LETTER TO THE WORLD

13 THE FIRST STEPS TO GOD

19 SECOND STEP TO GOD

23 THE THIRD STEP TO GOD: THE CONCEPT OF EQUALITY REVISITED

41 THE FOURTH STEP TO GOD

50 WHOSOEVER COMMITTETH SIN IS THE SERVANT OF SIN

55 THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH

57 BAPTISM: CRITERION FOR SALVATION

70 NEITHER RACE NOR SKIN COLOR QUALIFIES ONE FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD

78 LOVE IS THE IDENTITY CARD OF THIS KINGDOM

86 WHERE LIES YOUR SALVATION?

90 PRACTICE THE WORDS OF GOD

93 FAITH IS AQUIRED BY HEARING THE WORD OF GOD

107 MERCY: THE SOURCE OF SALVATION

114 SEARCH FOR GOD BEWARE OF MONEY

117 IF YOU PRACTICE THE WORD OF GOD, HE WILL DELIVER YOU OUT OF TEMPTATION

137 NO CROSS NO CROWN

140 ALWAYS LISTEN TO THE VOICE OF THE LORD WITHIN YOU

149 FORGIVENESS

158 THE MAN YOU SHOULD NOT PUT UP WITH

161 REPENTANCE

170 WHY YOUR PRAYERS ARE NOT ANSWERED

176 THE END OF TIME

189 BAPTISM IN BROTHERHOOD OF THE CROSS AND STAR

WHAT IS BROTHERHOOD OF THE CROSS AND STAR

FIRST LESSON: JOHN 20:7

And the handkerchief, which had been about his head, not lying with the linen cloths, but

folded in a place by itself.

SECOND LESSON: EPHESIANS 4:4-6

One body and one spirit, even as you were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one

faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is above all, and throughout all, in us all.

GOLDEN TEXT: 1 PETER 2:17

Honor all men; love the brotherhood; fear God; honor the king.

Dear brethren, we want to reveal an important thing to you. The three lessons will give

you an idea of what we are going to reveal. So please, be attentive. You may say that you know

what Brotherhood means, but we know from our hearts, that no one knows the meaning.

People have interpreted different ways. It is as a result of these misconceptions that we have

decided to take this opportunity to preach this gospel. Therefore, today shall go down in

history as a great day: a day of revelation; a day Brotherhood will be revealed to the world.

Professors of history from different universities have from time to time been coming to tell

us the Origin of Brotherhood. We have in each case laughed at the limitation of their wisdom

and have asked them to go and love one another. Anyone on the surface of the globe who tells

you that he has known the foundation of Brotherhood does not tell the truth.

In this Gospel, we are not including the words, "Cross and star," but Brotherhood only.

Search yourselves, you who say, that you are not Brotherhood, whether you are not

Brotherhood. What is the meaning of Brotherhood? It means God, Christ and the Angels. It

means the people of this world, the fishes in the water, the trees in the forests, the grass that

grows in the fields, and the ground we walk on. Brotherhood means the sky, the Wind, the

Moon, the Sun, the Stars. It means the worms, the ants, and the birds. Brotherhood means

every four-footed animal and every creeping thing. In short, Brotherhood means everything

created by God. Brotherhood means oneness. God and everything created by him put

together are Brotherhood.

Who owns Brotherhood? It is God who owns, rules and leads it. But Christ takes charge.

What are the duties of Angels? They are servants in Brotherhood. What are the duties of

people? They too, are workers in Brotherhood. The Stars, Sun, Moon, Fishes, Animals, Birds,

etc., are all workers in Brotherhood.

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BROTHERHOOD MEANS THE WORD OF GOD

Brotherhood means oneness. It is the word it is the truth. What is the word? It is God,

Christ, human beings; it is everything in the world. Brotherhood is the word of God.

Why is it that people of this world do not know what Brotherhood means? It is because it is

not given to them to understand. Brotherhood is not a Society it is not a Cult. It is the Spirit of Love. I am Brotherhood you are Brotherhood. You do not need to say, "I want to

be Brotherhood." You are Brotherhood whether you like it or not. Everybody is Brotherhood.

To those who want to know its origin, we say Brotherhood has no origin. It has no beginning

it has no end. Except a person wants to know the origin of God. Brotherhood was not founded

by Christ, angels or man. It was founded by God himself. God the founder is Love. It is truth; it

is good manners, mercy, and patience. It is humility, meekness, and unity. It is oneness; it is

one thought, one mind, one spirit, one faith, and one hope. There is no division in

Brotherhood. From the smallest child in the cradle to the oldest man: from the smallest

village to the biggest city: all countries in the world put together are Brotherhood.

WHAT IS CROSS

Anybody who wants to follow me, but does not want to take up the Cross after me,

cannot be my follower (CHRIST). Brethren, our Gospel is about the CROSS. After that

celebrated Gospel on what is Brotherhood during the Pentecostal Convention, many had

thought the Gospels on the Cross and Star would follow. But since my Father did not give the

signal throughout the convention, I could not do anything more than to allow his will to

prevail. This afternoon brethren, it has pleased him and he has given the signal that I should

do so. Therefore, I shall be failing in my duty as his mouthpiece, if I should fail to give you the Gospel on the 'Cross' today.

Some think to give alms means carrying the Cross: others think that to heal the sick by

praying, means carrying the Cross. Others think to pray three times a day means carrying the

Cross; yet another class of people thinks that to pay tithe, Freewill Offering and Charity

means carrying the Cross. The Cross-has been made into different forms. Some hang it

around their necks; some hang it on their walls. Christ says we should carry the Cross. Do all

those things mean you are carrying the Cross? We all know that Christ fell down with the

Cross-as he was carrying it to Calvary. Does carrying the Cross mean that a piece of wood

has to be carried? Without the Cross, the world could not have been saved. The Cross-is light

and it can also be heavy. For the world to be in perfect peace, each of us must carry the Cross.

By what means does one convert a smoker, a snuffer, a fornicator, a thief, a murderer,

a back-stabber, or a liar? Is it by carrying the Cross? If we all should decide today to take up

the Cross, the sins of the world would vanish immediately. What is the Cross? Is it vision and

prophecy? Or building houses for people: giving food to people, buying clothes for them? If

Jesus had only healed and prophesied without carrying the Cross, his work could come to

nothing.

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IT MEANS BEARING ONE ANOTHER'S BURDEN

If you buy a vehicle for brethren to go on ministry works so that their job is less

difficult, you are not carrying the Cross.

The Cross-is not as immense as you might have imagined. It is very small, it is light,

but it is also very heavy. What is the Cross? Cross means bearing another's burdens without

complaining: tolerating all sinners, murderers, thieves, and back-stabbers, etc. If one accuses

you falsely, yet you stand firm with Christ: if you are spat on, jeered at, disgraced without

any cause: if you are insulted without just cause, yet you tolerate such a person

wholeheartedly, you are carrying the Cross. If you are informed that someone has planned to

kill you and you will not run away, then you are carrying the Cross. To carry the Cross does

not cost anything. To be able to carry the Cross, you must resign yourself completely to God.

You must be loving, humble, you must have patience, you must be forgiving, you must see

another person as being better than yourself, you must not be envious. If Jesus did

not possess these qualities, he could not have carried the Cross. If you remain with a cunning

man without hurting his feelings for being crafty, if you can stay with a notorious liar,

happily, without stirring up his anger when he tells you a lie, when one persecutes you

falsely and seeks to destroy your life, yet you tolerate him, you are carrying the real Cross.

WHAT IS STAR? THE GREAT LIGHT

You have read in the scriptures about a secret name. That secret name is the Star. The

Star is Christ. The Star is the glory of God and it is the glory of Christ. The Star is the

revelation of God. It is the hidden name that no one knows. The Star indicates the reign and

the glory of Christ. The Star here does not refer to the constellation above. The Star means the

brightness of God and the power of his reign. The Star is the peace of the Almighty God that

governs the universe. There is no other Monarch other than Christ, the Star. From his birth,

the great light has been shinning over Christ's head. It is the only light that shines the

whole world over. Therefore, it is not enough for someone to be a Brotherhood only, or to

carry the Cross alone, but to be worthy children of the Kingdom. To be worthy children of the

Kingdom of God we must be of the Brotherhood of the Cross and Star. The Star indicates

those who will rule and are ruling with him. The Star is the ruler of the Brotherhood of the

Cross and Star. He is Christ, and Christ did not come alone. The Father is here, the Son is here

and the Holy Spirit is here. He is in the Father, Christ is the City of which we are told. No

light is needed, because he shines there. The Father and the Son shine to eternity.

The name of the morning Star is known to Christ alone and is not known to human

beings. We worship the Star, which is Christ. The Cross-we must carry.

The Star is the glory that reigns over the world. In his first coming, Christ passed

through pain and tribulation. The primary aim of his second coming is to rule in glory. It is

the glory indicative of his reign. He is coming to take up his kingship and rule. His kingdom is

here on Earth. The Star means Christ, his glory and that of his father. He has arrived with the

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father to live with men on earth. He comes in glory to rule the whole world. He has not come

to serve, suffer and die, as he did in his first coming. Each time the almighty father sends his

Son out; he gives him a new name. His disciples were also given different names. When he

departed from the world, his disciples were called Christians. When he worked among men,

he was called Jesus. He asked his disciples, "Who do men say that I am?"

He was told; he was the Christ, the Son of God. He warned them not to call him that

name and requested them to keep it a secret to themselves. God knows best why his

Son should be given a new name each time he is sent to earth. When you hear the name

Christ, you cannot say who the Anointed One is.

When he is called Star, you cannot distinguish one from the other. The Star radiates

light. His glory and his reign go into eternity. Christ is the light, he is Jehovah God. Imagine

how sweet the name sounds in a believer's ear. It is the light that blinded Saul on his way to

Damascus. Christ's name is only known to the father and the Son.

THANK YOU FATHER

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AN OPEN LETTER TO THE WORLD

FIRST LESSON: 2 PETER 2:9

The Lord knoweth how to deliver the Godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto

the Day of Judgment to be punished.

SECOND LESSON: JOHN 14:27

Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you, not as the world giveth give I unto you. Let

not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

GOLDEN TEXT: MATTHEW 11:28

Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

The above texts reveal our lesson. The Bible text confirms that there is nowhere else

where anybody can find love apart from Christ. Therefore, whoever calls upon His name can

never fail to get salvation from Him. Brotherhood is the Biblical Noah's Ark.

Our Lord Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever. He is the only one who

knows how to deliver all those that fear Him from temptation. Whether you are a thief, a

murderer, a fornicator or a woeful sinner, once you call upon His name. He will not fail to save

you. Do not be ashamed to call upon His name and do not be afraid to worship Him. He has

come to save all those that seek after and accept Him.

Money, food or the government cannot save you. Nothing material can save mankind

other than Christ. There is equally no other man that is capable of delivering man from his

current predicament other than our Lord Jesus Christ. It is for this reason that all should

forsake sins. Whoever hardens his heart should change now. Christ is that Noah's Ark and He

has arrived at your doorpost. Follow Him, believe in Him and seek after Him for He has come

to search for the lost sheep.

As many as believe in Him and practice His injunctions shall have everlasting life. What

is practiced in the whole world is retaliation and vengeance. People keep on ill-treating fellow

men, obstructing their progress, and doing all sorts of evil to them. The three main texts in

this gospel reveal the mission of Christ on earth. One of our spiritual Choruses says, "Weep

not child and lament not for the Savior of the poor is not on His way, but is in our midst".

Except the tree falls the axe would not rest. This is the reason why all of us should get into the field to save the lost sheep.

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THE LORD OF PEACE

If you say, you love God that you love Christ and the world, then it is your place to go

and save the sheep in the field. Christ alone is the one who does not impute sin on any person.

He is the only one who thinks and cares for us day and night. He is The King of Kings and The

Lord of Lords. He is Lord of peace and of life. Therefore, we have to resemble Him to follow

Him and to love Him. It is a matter of necessity, that a child should resemble his parents. A

house that is divided against itself cannot stand and is doomed. Any house where a member

therein engages in quarreling and lusts for materialism, such a house is doomed. Any

individual or group of persons who lust after the things of this world is doomed.

Let us seek for God now while it is yet day and do so with the whole of our heart, and

soul. Let us look for Him when it is possible to see Him. A time is coming when such golden

opportunity will not be available again. This is the time of peace, life and the right time to seek for God. When God extends His divine call to you, do not hesitate, waste no time and harden

not your heart but follow Him immediately He can call you by whatever means, it may be

through sickness, court case, hatred, hardship or through the enemy. God is never pleased

with the death of an evildoer. He continues to call His people through various means to

Himself.

THE EXPERIENCE OF JONAH

Something spectacular happened to Jonah. Many of us today are like Jonah. The voice of

God went to Jonah instructing him to go to Nineveh to save souls. But because of his lust for

materialism he refused. To fulfill the local adage which says that, " a child that would not want the mother to sleep, would also have to stay awake". Jonah obtained a fair share of his bargain. A number of us today have been called by God and charged to go into His vineyard

but we have refused. We are God's servants and messengers, just as the angels are.

This is indeed a wonderful time in spirit. God is never pleased with the death of

evildoers. It is for this reason that He commissions us daily into the vineyard and save souls. It is said that, today when you hear His voice harden not your heart. There is no other salvation

apart from our Lord Jesus Christ. There is no other person who can save the world apart from

Christ. This is the right time to save those who cannot help themselves.

The ways of God are different from the ways of man. God is not lax in fulfilling His

promise but only exercises long suffering. It is not His will that any should perish but that all

should repent and be saved.

Governments all over the world, the churches, the various communities, nations and

individuals are in a precarious situation and pitiable state.

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Now is not a good time for anyone to go about seeking for money, wife, husband,

children or any material thing. This is God's own period for His service and for the

manifestation of His Kingdom. This is the time to seek for only The Living and Mighty God.

For a time is coming when we shall seek for Him but will not see Him anymore. Read our

lesson again.

FIRST LESSON: 2 PETER 2:9

The Lord knoweth how to deliver the Godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto

the Day of Judgment to be punished.

THE END IS AT HAND

All the events that we see in the world today merely represent "Police Action". The real time of judgment is fast approaching. People are crying and shouting that life is so hard and

the going so rough. This is yet a tip of the iceberg. Tougher conditions and harder times are yet

to come. The First Lesson has it that:

The Lord knoweth how to deliver the Godly out of temptation, and to reserve the unjust

unto the Day of Judgment to be punished.

Tell the world that judgment is coming. What is obtainable now are mere signs of labor

and pains. Let all the inhabitants of both the heaven and earth seize this golden opportunity to

serve The Lord. Those that worship Him should hold fast and those who do not know Him

should now return to Him. It is advisable to search for a black goat when it is yet day. Do not

think that after all, He is the God of love, mercy and grace and because of that you continue to

wallow in sinfulness. This is the time of peace and joy. Therefore, you have to seek for peace

and joy.

During the era of Noah, this same situation was what took place. People were busy

selling and buying; they got married and were equally given in marriage. They engaged in all

the trades and pleasures of life to the detriment of God and total abandonment of His

message. Noah preached persistently to the people for 120 years yet they refused to listen to

him. They rather derided him and regarded him as a demented and idle person. But in the

end, the foolish became, wise, the demented sane and the idle active. The First Lesson

therefore reveals God's plan and handiwork. If all of us turn to Him, follow and worship Him,

we will surely have salvation. All the songs that we sing, the testimonies that we give, our

dances, the words that we preach, all constitute the blowing of the trumpet to the world to

repent of their evil ways and come over to God.

All the churches, associations, and individuals must remain one with each other to

foster peace, prosperity and eternal life in the world. If the whites refuse to abide by this call 7

they would not be saved. On the other hand, if the blacks refuse His call, they will also perish.

Do not think that your color, sex or religion will save you, if you fail to listen to His call to

righteousness.

Let no church deceive itself that, it will be saved except it lives in peace with all. This is

the time that every man should advise himself and unite with one another in peace. Live in

peace with your parents, children, friends’, government and all the inhabitants of the world.

He has come to rule us in peace and to untie all people in love. Therefore, you should discard

the thought for right knowledge, rivalry, war and other reactionary activities for they cannot

profit you anything. All those who seek for love, salvation, peace, and eternal life must live in

peace with all. This is the Everlasting Gospel. Tell the proud and arrogant and those who

delight in the abundance of their wealth to surrender to the Rulership of The Almighty Father

so that peace, love and prosperity would return to the earth. Tell those who continue to wage

wars, and to plan for further wars that, the time for that has since passed. This is the time of

God; all should therefore surrender to His Rulership.

The Lord has come to save the whole world in general and in particular, those that

worship Him, from temptation. He is also reserving the unrighteous under punishment till

the Day of Judgment. You should always remember what the Bible says that, one day is like a

thousand years in the eyes of The Lord and a thousand days like one day. On the other hand,

one day for men is a thousand years for God. Do not live in the illusion that, after all God had

been planning to destroy this world since the time of our great grandparents yet up till now

He has not done so. Matthew 24, Luke 17, 2nd Peter 2 and 3 all confirm that fire will be used to

examine each individual's work. He said that as it was in the time of Noah so shall it be on The

Judgment Day. Also as it was in the days of Lot so shall it be in this generation. As The Father

did not forgive the erring angels but held them in detention until judgment, so shall it happen

in these days. As He did not forgive Sodom and Gomorrah: as He did not forgive the people

during the time of Noah, He shall in no wise forgive this generation. All sinners should repent

and turn to him. You should abstain from stealing, fornication, adultery, idolatry, killing,

anger, disobedience and all the vices. Hold fast to God. He has come to bestow us with love,

peace and good health, which are better than raiment. Read our Second Lesson again.

SECOND LESSON: JOHN 14:27

Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you; not as the world giveth, give I unto you; Let

not your heart be troubled, nether let it be afraid.

THE DAYS OF GRACE

Brethren, you should now realize that this is the time of peace, mercy, love and

righteousness. If He is given the cause to withdraw the peace, love, grace, and mercy then the

world is doomed. If you refer to Revelation 7:1-3:

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"And after these things, I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth,

holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the

sea, nor on the trees.

And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having The Seal of The Living God; and he

cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea.

Saying hurt not the earth, neither the sea nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our

God in their foreheads."

You would discover God's plan for mankind. This is to remind you that if God withdraws

His grace, the whole world will be destroyed. Let us embrace the peace that The Lord has left

with us so that we can equally extend it to our neighbors, churches, governments, husbands,

wives and all the inhabitants of the world.

ONE FLOCK, ONE SHEPHERD

There should be one flock under one shepherd. Remember our Lord Jesus Christ's

statement to the disciples when He said that He had another sheep that was present there.

And so He had to go and bring them into His sheepfold, so that, there would be one flock

under one shepherd. Do not allow yourself to be deceived that you can have peace except you

live in peace with your brethren. You will never be justified except you live in peace with one

another. Why The Father commissions us to go into the field is to bring back all the lost sheep

together under one shepherd in love and peace. God is not pleased with the death of a sinner

but preserves them through His long suffering so that they may repent.

No man does a good thing and confines such a thing to his house. He will definitely take

the thing outside into the full view and appreciation of all. Warri in Delta State is very close to Calabar, yet a certain brother confessed that it was only recently, about two weeks ago, that he

heard something about Brotherhood of the Cross and Star. There are those who are looking for

help in prison, sick beds, water and forests. There are those who would have only called on the

name of The Father for their problems to be solved but could not because, there is no one to

direct them. In trying to evangelize the world, you should be prepared to answer any

derogatory names, which the world will call you in the course of propagating this message of

hope and salvation.

God has promised mankind when He said that we should call upon Him and He will answer us.

The spiritual song, which goes with, the above promise says: "Call upon me in the time of

trouble, I will answer you". The question now is, how will the people call upon the person, they do not believe in? How will they believe in a name they have never heard of? How will they

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hear when there is no preacher to inform them? And, how will a preacher go out and preach

when he has not been commissioned to do so.

A certain brother in America who was in prison was asked to call upon the name and he

would be saved. He believed, he called upon the name and was saved.

This also confirms the statement of our Lord Jesus Christ that except a man is born of water

and Holy Spirit, he cannot be His disciple. Many are called unto The Lord, but there is a danger

when you delay. The song goes thus: "Many are called unto The Lord, many are called unto The

Lord, there is danger if you delay."

GOLDEN TEXT: MATTHEW 11:28

Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

THE LAST CALL

The biblical excerpt above is the last call and the golden opportunity for those who want

salvation, whoever delays shall have himself to blame. Do not quarrel with any person or

engage in any argument over anything, do not even beg anybody, but only tell it to them and

whoever believes and answers the call shall be saved. But if you go to a place and the people

there reject you, the Bible says that you should shake the dust off your feet there and that will

remain as an instrument of witness against them. The end of such people or city would be

worse than that of Sodom and Gomorrah. Any house you go into, first say. "Let the peace be

unto this house", and if there be a child of peace, the peace of God shall follow him. Go and preach to individual and groups, preach to the government, preach to all the creation of God

to repent and turn to God. Those who hearken shall be saved but those who shall reject you

will reject their lives. Go into the enemy’s front, for as a soldier of Christ you cannot be

wounded at the front.

Tell everyone; that comes across you to forsake sins and follow Christ. Let nobody

continue to engage in planning and doing evil to his brethren. Let them know that whoever

goes with the sword shall die by it. I know that as you go out the people do ask you what The

Father says. Tell them The Father says they should leave their old ways and accept the truth,

love and peace. Tell them that Christ is the way, the life and the truth. Tell them that except

they pass through Him they would not see God and they would not inherit His Kingdom.

Inform them that The Lord is willing and ready to accept and wash any sinner clean. Preach to

the President, Prime Minister, Governors, Senators and the rest of the people in the corridors

of power.

Tell those who want to plant themselves as life President, or Governors that the time has

come when they will run away from those political positions themselves. This is the time for

Jehovah God and His Christ to reign and rule. The government and the governance of the

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people are in His hands. The blacks, the whites, men and women, young and old, animals in

the bush, fishes in the water, birds in the air, the trees and all God's creations have to return to their creator. All the activities that men do, none, will help them. If we do not follow Him now,

we stand to lose His love, peace and grace.

GOD'S PROMISE

Remember His promise that you should not trouble your minds; that you should believe

in The Father and in Him, for in His Father's Kingdom there are many mansions. If it were not

so, He would have told us. He said He went to prepare a place for us thereafter He would come

and take us there so that wherever He is, we should be there also. He has come to take us all

into The Kingdom. This is the time to part ways with anything mundane and follow God.

Follow Him now when it is not late so that you will not regret.

Our spiritual chorus says:

Come O! Come, Come, my Children, I do not want you to be destroyed. Come and make

peace with me.

And another one is: Those who were with Me, I will come to take them to myself.

It is advisable that we follow God because He lives, and we shall also live. He does not

taste of death. He has said: but this man, because He continueth ever, hath an unchangeable

priesthood. Wherefore He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by

Him. Seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for them. For such an high priest became us,

who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners and made higher than the heavens

(Hebrews 7:24-26) This is the time He has come to lead the world to salvation. He is our Only

Savior and Treasure.

AN OPEN LETTER

This Gospel is an Open Letter to the world. It should be disseminated to all Nations, all

liberation fighters and rebel leaders, all life Presidents and Monarchs, all oppressors and

deceivers, and all the inhabitants of the world and the angels. To be forewarned is to be

forearmed. Your money, education, position, power, color or stature will not help you. There is

no life, no glory, and no truth, nothing in the world at all, other than sorrows and woes. But

whoever accepts this message stands to be saved.

Remember that the same letter was written to Sodom and Gomorrah in Isaiah 1:10-12. If

the two cities of Sodom and Gomorrah had heeded God's instruction that they should refrain

from iniquities and love one another the young and old, rich and poor, man or woman, they

would not have been destroyed. If they accepted to come and make peace with their Creator,

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He would have forgiven all their iniquities and washed them to be as white as snow as He

promised. But because they refused God's injunction they were devoured by the sword.

Christ is here on earth and The Father is here too. Both are calling us to come and be

saved. The Lord has come to save the living and the dead.

The call is not to follow Obu or Brotherhood, or my church denomination or country or

individual. Follow Christ alone, for He is here on earth to gather all the sheep under one flock

and one shepherd.

Let us refrain from war, hatred, stealing, killing, and every act that destroys a man. We

should rather love one another, live in peace, and be humble and merciful. If all the

inhabitants of the world and all the nations do this, then we shall be saved. A stroke of a cane

is sufficient for the wise. May God bless His Holy Words. Amen!

THANK YOU FATHER

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THE FIRST STEP TO GOD

COMPLETELY REFRAIN FROM SIN

Any person, who does not refrain from all the sins enumerated below, cannot be a good

Christian. These sins are:

Fornication, adultery, stealing, lying, deceit, envying, cunning, anger, quarrelling, fighting,

gossiping, idolatry, witchcraft, taking of drinks, smoking, snuffing, heresy, lasciviousness,

sedition, unrighteousness, mischief, jealousy, vindictiveness, pomposity, division, laziness,

covetousness, argument, flippancy, pride, fraud, bullying, murder, insult, rancor, vain

thinking, aggravation, whispering, cursing, herbalism, traditional plays, worldly dance,

worldly scene, swearing by blood, oath, inordinate lust, and evil concupiscence; both native,

and English treatments; occult science, burning of incense, Ogboni society; Playing of band,

or drums; Weeping, frowning of face, sighing, bribery, or being bribed, selfishness; flogging

of children, wife, or servant; and disobedience or lamenting. Wearing of gold, pearls,

earrings, necklace, finger ring, piercing of ear, etc. Offering people drinks; Keeping company

with fornicators, mourning, keeping mourning houses, and secret societies such as:

Rosicrucian, Lodge, Abu, Ekpe, Ekpo and others. Court action, backbiting, sacrifice, presence

in worldly society, sooth-saying, or worldly gathering; eating meat of strangled beasts, or,

meat of animals which die by themselves, and such like unGodly manners. Any person, who

refrains from the sins, enumerated above, and complies with the instructions given in the

New Testament, such a fellow will be fit to be Christ's disciple, and will become a True

Student of: The Universal Spiritual School of Practical Christianity.

THE VIRTUES OF A GOOD CHRISTIAN IN BROTHERHOOD OF THE CROSS AND STAR:

Love, truth, patience, faith, hope, joy, temperance, peace, righteousness, generosity,

complacency, meekness, truthfulness, and rightful action. Being a husband of one wife, or a

wife of one husband, or remaining a virgin. Mercy, honor, humility, and happiness, in what

God gives, and respect towards God. Holiness, eloquence, quick to forgive one another,

oneness of mind and endurance.

THE LAWS OF GOD

1st. Love: Love ye one another even as Christ loved you.

2nd. Faith: Have faith in The Name of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

3rd. Hope: Have hope in God perpetually.

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THE WORK OF GOD

The work of God includes: The hearing of the gospel, and putting into practice what is

preached. The preaching of the gospel right through the world, being generous to the poor,

the saints, the lame, the widow, the afflicted, the distressed and the sick. Hospitality to

strangers and orphans. The work of God is to have faith, in His only begotten Son, Jesus

Christ, and to have love for one another.

HOW TO WORSHIP GOD

Paying of Tithe, Free Will Offering and Charity. Take all God has given you, divide it

into ten parts, and offer unto God one part out of the ten parts. This is what is meant by

paying of tithe. Render thanks unto God, on account of what He has done unto you, giving

freely what you like unto God. Praying all the time, and singing His praises continually.

REFRAIN FROM EVERY BIT OF SIN

First Bible Lesson: Philippians 3:13

Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those

things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before.

Second Bible Lesson: Romans 6:1-2

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How

shall we that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?

Golden Text: 1st Timothy 6:11

But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, Godliness, faith,

love, patience, meekness.

Today, we are going to reveal to you, the first step, to take, to qualify you, as a man of

God, worker for God, and a Child of God. This is what is really meant by Baptism. As a first

step, it is so necessary that it must not be skipped. We are prepared to work for God, the

moment we decide to take this step. Otherwise we are not yet ready. Preparedness to work for

God, also means abandoning all earthly things, and giving up ourselves wholly, to doing good

alone. Take this decision now, and you will be on the first step, up the ladder to God. After

taking a strong footing on the first step, we are just about to advance. We have not yet

finished the race excepting, we can count on the first step as a good start, to enable us to

press on to the mark.

GOOD WORKS

The race that lies ahead of everyone to run, is doing good. But the trouble with the

world is, none is wise enough to know, we cannot do that which is good, if we do not first of

all stop doing that, which is bad. Therefore brethren, let us all continue in doing good,

throughout our lives.

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First Bible Lesson: Philippians 3:13

Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those

things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before.

From the above text, you can see, when you have forgotten worldly things, and

refrained from sin, you have done only one thing. Many things are still lying before us, to do.

For instance, patience is there to be had. The Holy Spirit will direct us, and our conscience

will be worried, if we do not do the first thing first; that is, if we do not refrain completely

from sin, before attempting to have that patience.

COMPARISON

To what can we compare the abandoning of sin, as the first duty of a Christian? It is

like the clearing up of a bush, which should be done first, before the trimming of the trees. In

the process of making a farm, if the process is reversed, and the trimming is done before the

clearing, the trimmings will fall over the undergrowth, and the bush will not take fire; thus it

will not be possible, to clear it, for planting. For this reason, the greatest, and foremost thing, a Christian should do, is to confess his or her sins, and be baptized. In short, he or she should

first refrain from all manners of sin, and the fire of The Holy Ghost will direct him or her, to

do good always. We can compare anybody, who does not take this step, to a man, who misses

the consecutive order of counting from one, thus missing the first thing, and cannot have his

sum correct, because he ignores the first number.

Thus also, anybody, who has not completely refrained from sin, should not count himself as a

servant of God. He is not fit to do anything for God.

NOT YET HOLY

This does not mean that any person, who has refrained from all sins, is holy or good

enough before God. Such a person has not yet started the work of God, until he learns to love

everybody as himself. Abandoning sin only shows, the person believes in God and His Son;

and, he is prepared to follow God, and to do His Will.

He is determined to go forward. He has begun to hear the Gospel, and is different; from

the sinful person, who can never be counted, among those, who hear the Gospel, though he be

a preacher of it. So, let all those, who are now prepared to follow Christ, refrain from every bit of sin. And once they have refrained from sin, let them not go back to it. But let them go on,

loving, and spreading The Teaching of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

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Second Bible Lesson: Romans 6:1-2

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How

shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?

After, you have been taken out of sin, would you like to go back to it; so that your soul

may perish. The scriptures answer: God forbid. Anybody who stood before God, and

denounced Satan, the world, and sin, should under no circumstances, go to attach himself to

these things.

In 2nd Peter 2:20-22, it is written: "For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the

world through the knowledge of The Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled

therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them, than the beginning. For it had been

better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it,

to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. But it is happened unto them,

according to the true proverb, the dog is turned, to his own vomit again; and the sow that was

washed, to her wallowing in the mire."

Even if, you are to be killed, suffer death; instead of going back to sin, after you have

abandoned it. The practice of goodness is the only thing that can sustain a man to be sinless.

So, if you have actually abandoned sin, be sure of your salvation, by holding on to doing

nothing but good. Otherwise you are not yet saved. And if you go back to sin, your last

position is worse than the first. The person, who has abandoned all sins, is like a man sent to

England to study. He has to resign his former appointment, before leaving for further

studies. If he does not do well in his studies, and is sacked from the University, he comes back

without any degree; he has lost both his job, and the University qualification, and is bound to

suffer. So let all of us, who have abandoned sin, proceed at once, to do the Gospel.

We should not fail to do good after we have stopped doing evil. Otherwise we shall

confuse ourselves, and be in a dilemma. If we have been making such mistakes in the past, let

us resolve from today never to do so again. It is said, when a person makes the first mistake,

he is a fool; but when he makes a second one, he is a bloody fool. It is indeed foolish to return

to sin, after we have denounced it. At First, We may ask ourselves, “Why did we refrain from

it at all?”

If sin was all that good, why did we not continue in it? Again, if we go back to sin, shall

we find any good, as we perhaps thought there would be? If we will not, what gain then do

those who still cling to sin have? If you abandon hundreds of sins, but still retain one, you

will suffer for that one sin, just as a person, who has not refrained from 100 sins.

(James 2:10). What is the use of refraining from adultery, and fornication, and still holding

on to anger? It is written, a little leaven, leaveneth the whole lump. If you have refrained

from all other sins, but continue to beat your children, are you not still in the grip of Satan?

Has the Scripture not forbidden you from tormenting your children?

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In Ephesians 6:4, it is written: "And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but

bring them up in the nurture and admonition of The Lord." You may stop actually flogging

your children, but if you continue to threaten them with such words as: "I will beat you to

death," are you not committing sin? This you know is provoking the children to wrath. So, if

there is any sin still remaining in you, remove it right now, in order to fulfill the first, and the most important condition, to qualify you, as a Christian, and a Child of God. Among us here

today are those who have abandoned all sins. There are also among us those who have one sin

left; those who say, they will leave sin gradually; and there are those who say, they are not yet

ready to refrain from any sin now. I ask: "what use is there, in retaining even a single sin?"

There is no sense in this thing. The only wise people are those, who have refrained from all

sins, and will never go back to them, in their lives. Everybody wants God. If you have one sin

left, when are you going to take just the first step to God?

If you say you will not leave sin, until God does His work, and changes you, when will

that be, when will God do His work? Is God not doing His work, now that you are hearing this

Gospel? May I assure you, God is doing His work now? If you change, it is better. But if you

continue in sin, you are laboring in vain. You are building on sand, thus making in vain the

work of God in our midst. All those, who have only one sin still remaining, are the same as

those, who have not forsaken any sin; and all those, who have forsaken all sins, for a while

and have gone back to commit them, are like those who have never refrained from any sin. If

you abandon sin for twenty years, and then suddenly, in the twenty-first year, you commit it

again, you are even worse than the person, who has been committing sin continuously

throughout his life. What then is the benefit you have derived from the many years you had

stayed and avoided sin? May I remind you again, if you have refrained from all sins, but you

do not do any good service to humanity, there is no virtue in you, and your effort to refrain

from sin, is of no benefit.

Golden Text: 1st Timothy 6:11

But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, Godliness, faith,

love, patience, meekness.

This lesson explains what is meant in the First Lesson, concerning reaching forth unto

those things, which are before. Let us who have therefore refrained from sin; now go after

charity, peace, humility, kindness and all the rest of the virtues. And let us note, while doing

this, if we don't first of all refrain from all sins we cannot do any good; we cannot do The

Work of God. Anger is of Satan. Hatred, lack of faith, stubbornness, hard-heartedness and

lying are all the works of Satan. But love, faithfulness, obedience, forgiving one another, and

truth, are all of God. If you do not first, do away with everything satanic, how can you have

anything that is from God? If you do not stop telling lies, how can you begin to speak the

truth? If you do not leave Satan, how can you hold on to God?

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Now Brethren, let us all refrain from sin, and go after virtue, let us remember first, the FIRST

STEP, which is refraining from all manner of sins. If we do this, we shall find Salvation for

our souls. Those who have ears let them hear, may God Bless His Holy Words. Amen!

THANK YOU FATHER

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THE SECOND STEP TO GOD

First Bible Lesson: 1st Corinthians 5:11

But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a

fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such

a one, no, not to eat.

Second Bible Lesson: 2nd John 1:10

If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house,

neither bid him God speed.

Golden Text: 2nd Corinthians 6:17

Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the

unclean thing; and I will receive you.

DISASSOCIATE YOURSELF COMPLETELY FROM SINNERS

Brethren, we are going to reveal two important things to you today:

A. The First Step to God which teaches us to refrain from sin entirely, and

B. The Second Step to God, which also teaches us to leave fornication, falsehood,

drunkenness, juju-making, lying and all manner of sins.

You are neither to eat with those who indulge in these practices, nor converse with, nor

do anything with them. As you refrain from sin, you must leave sinners too, if you want to

be a true son of God. How can you be the son of God without disassociating yourself from

sinners? It is easier to be the son of Satan, than to be the son of God.

God does not want any bit of sin in us. If you leave sin, you must part company with

sinners. You are to leave them and their deceitful practices. When we tell you to leave the

world, we do not mean that you should abandon the earth, but the earthly things: wealth,

money, men, women, riches, fathers, mothers, children, parents and relations. If you want

to enjoy God, have nothing to do with sinners, even their greetings. God does not want

their prayers or songs. Their actions are sinful. God does not hear the prayers of sinners.

Brethren, today's preaching is meant for all those, who have finished with The First

Step to God, that is: Leaving sin completely. If you corroborate with a sinner, you are a

sinner, an earthly man, a fornicator, and everything evil.

It is a great sin for a Christian to eat, drink, converse, exchange greetings, or have

anything to do with a sinner. That was why Paul was annoyed when he saw Peter eating

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with the Gentiles. He, (Paul), disgraced him, (Peter), in public. (Galatians 2:11-14) Until you

disassociate yourself completely from sinners, you are an earthly man. This was the

reason why Christ chose His 12 disciples, and had them separated from the world.

They had nothing to do with false doctrines, juju men, unbelievers, doubtful followers,

money, cigarettes, and drinks. We too must have no business with them, if really we are the

sons of God. It is not possible to be God's friend, or His son, without first of all, leaving

sinners, and their sinful ways.

First Bible Lesson: 1st Corinthians 5: 11

But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a

fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such

a one, no, not to eat.

ARE YOU A CHRISTIAN?

Brethren do you see, there is no subtraction? If you have done the "First Step to God,"

and this Step you know, you are near to God. Do not keep company with any brother who is a

backbiter, fornicator, idolater etc. Christ was said to be a friend of sinners, but ever since He

died and shed His blood, He has no business with sinners anymore. God counts as nothing,

the death of 100 sinners a day. He hates people who backbite against His workers. What you

take pride in doing, is what He hates. It is disgraceful for a Christian to drink, or smoke, or

associate with unbelievers. What are you going to preach to them? Nothing in them is good,

even the food they cook. If you keep company with sinners, you sin against God; and your

prayers are not answered. Do you see now why Christ said: "if you do not forsake your father, or mother, you can't be God's follower?" (Matthew 19:29) You do not hate him, but you should

hate his bad ways.

Traitors are unbelievers; whatever you do for them, is lost. God does not count them as

His children; and He does not listen to them. I stress that you should not associate with them.

Even their word means evil. Do not be surprised to see their prayers worsening a sickness,

instead of improving it. They are nothing. This gospel is not meant for them, but for those,

who have forsaken sin.

Second Bible Lesson: 2nd John 1: 10

If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house,

neither bid him God speed.

THE WEAPON

This is our weapon and salvation. Any brother or sister, who does not bring this

teaching to you, do not greet him, or her, or entertain them. Let him go his or her way, for by

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keeping his or her company, you have offended God. Christ said: "Beware of the leaven of the

Pharisees." (Matthew Chapter 16:6, Mark 8:15, Luke 12:1). The leaven is the false prophet. Why entertain him, when he says, the time of The Holy Spirit, and vision has passed? This is the

last teaching, and the revelation of The Word of God. Do not listen to whoever teaches you to

wear earrings, and other ornaments; because this is against Bible teachings. (1st Peter 3:3-4)

Do not rejoice with a sinner, or share with him in committing any sin, even if he is your

brother, or your relative. If you do, you bear his burden.

Why do you listen to those, who speak evil words against God, whereas you get

annoyed when evil is said about your earthly father? You will find the Second Step difficult if

you haven't passed The First Step. Brethren, let's think well. There is no greater sin, than

rejoicing with sinners. The Apostles of old had nothing to do with sinners. If you want to be

clean, be clean from head to toe; otherwise the juju-maker will laugh at you, on the last day.

Golden Text: 2nd Corinthians 6: 17

Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the

unclean thing; and I will receive you.

WHERE DO YOU STAND?

Do you understand the above lesson? After this sermon, if you still have something to

do with a backbiter, you are a confusionist; you are a pig that throws itself into a muddy

place, after being washed. The food of a backbiter, his water, words, even his greetings, are

poisonous. To associate with the Child of God, you must always be clean. Do not touch any

unclean thing, and I will hear you, when you call on me. Leave all sinners, otherwise you are

lost. Many lament why they should be Brotherhood, yet things are hard with them. Do you

keep to advice? How can the Child of God serve a demon? The Child of God works for The

Father. If you do not leave sin, how will you not touch unclean things? Psalm 1 says: "Do not walk in the counsel of the unGodly, nor stand in the way of sinners, nor sit in the seat of the

scornful."

God does not lack children. Remember the Parable of the Sower; how he planted good

seeds, but the wicked one came, and planted wild seeds among the good ones. (Matthew

Chapter 13:25-30) Satan swears, he will continue to mix up with the Children of God, so as to

cause them, to denounce God. I tell you this with tears in my eyes, the time has come to select

out the real Brotherhood. So do not let Satan laugh at you. God, your Father, has everything

for you; so you should require nothing from the house of the lost ones. Your Father has silver

and gold. Life is in His hands. A man of God should not befriend a worldly man, because he is

blind and deaf. Take this gospel home and practice it. You will become the Children of God.

You know we are looking for saints now. If you are not a saint, and you are no longer a juju-

maker, where do you stand? Surely the world will laugh at you. If you want to serve God, do

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so whole-heartedly, so that He may take you as a child, and then you will have salvation.

Those who have ears to hear let them hear. May the Lord bless the preaching of His Holy

Words. Amen.

THANK YOU FATHER

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THE THIRD STEP TO GOD: THE CONCEPT OF EQUALITY REVISITED

First Bible Lesson: Luke 12:48

But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few

stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom

men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.

Second Bible Lesson: Luke 3:11

He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath

none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise.

Golden Text: 2nd Corinthians 8:14

But by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that

their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality.

EQUALITY, THE COMMENCEMENT OF BROTHERHOOD

Brethren, what you have heard is what we want to reveal to you this morning. The

summary of the lessons constitutes the "primary," as well as, the "University," Brotherhood. It is the real Brotherhood. The Gospels preached about the qualities of love, patience, truth,

honesty and humility hang on the lesson on Equality. That is the commencement of

Brotherhood, by sharing all you have with those less fortunate than yourself. It is also the

complete Brotherhood, sharing equally whatever you possess, so that none is more abundant

than the other, and none is in lack, that there may be equality. Whatever is made by God is

meant to be shared equally, amongst the Children of God.

It is for lack of the wisdom of truth that, man accumulates everything for himself, in

one spot, so that the wealth accumulated gets rotten; some wasting away, others destroyed by

rodents and wild animals, while others die. Meanwhile the children of men are dying of

hunger. If you are able to practice all other Gospels, but cannot practice this Gospel, you have

scored a zero. This Gospel is like beginning to count the arithmetical numerals starting from

"zero," or "nought". And nought or zero, as you know, is the beginning, and end of the numerals. You are true witnesses to the fact; the zero is the starting point of arithmetical

numerals, before one or two is counted. This "0" or the zero makes up most of the numbers. It makes the '10,' or '20,' or '50,' or '100,' or '1000,' or one million, or one billion. The '0' is

therefore the "A" and the "Z": the Beginning and the End.

EQUALITY WORKS HUMILITY

This Gospel is the initial step, the 'ABC,' in understanding, The Work of God. If you have

two coats, you have to give one to the person, who has none. As God has blessed you, so you

have to share all your resources, equally, with those, who are less fortunate, than yourselves.

This is the commencement of The Gospel of God. When you possess love, truth, patience,

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meekness, mercy and self-control, equality is the foundation on which these virtues rest; and

if you have equality, in addition to other virtues, you are perfect. It appears to be the least of the Gospels, indeed very infinitesimal; and when you listen to it, you may ask, if that is all,

you are expected to do: giving one of your two coats to another person who has none. But I

want to put it to you; it is the greatest, the final, and indeed, the most significant of all the

Gospels preached.

Our own salvation, and that of the whole world, hangs on this Efficacious Gospel.

Those, to whom God had promised would inherit this Kingdom, are those who practice this

Gospel. If you fail to practice the Gospel, it means, you will have no share, in The Kingdom of

God. This Gospel does not require vision, prayer or preaching. This Gospel should be written,

circulated and distributed to all parts of the world, to enable every soul to read, and

understand the wisdom of the truth. It does not serve any useful purpose, for you to seek

after vision, prayer, or to receive lessons. But practice the Gospel, and all will be well with

you. Whosoever receives and practices this Gospel, his eyes will be opened, and he will no

longer steal, or tell lies, or commit murder, or indulge in any act, of sin.

EVERY PERSON IS EQUAL BEFORE GOD

It does not only end with your sharing the two items of clothing, and food mentioned,

but includes also, all the material possessions. Having been bestowed with the manifold

blessings of God, you are now called upon; to share all you have, with those, who are not as

fortunate, as yourself. A great many people become worried, and would want to break their

heads, when they are told, in Brotherhood, every person is equal. Those, who call themselves

chiefs and kings, find it difficult to accept that, with their possessions, they can be equal with schoolboys, the unemployed, and the orphans. They feel, they should not be equated, with

any other classes of people. What you are listening to now is The Gospel of Equality, and I

wish that you listen attentively, in order to assimilate it.

THE THIRD STEP

You are aware that we have the First Step to God and the Second Step to God. The

provisions of the two books lead you to this Final Gospel of Equality. You do not require that

somebody should preach this Gospel to you, or that you should be offered prayer. It does not

require testimony. You know its efficacy. There is no compulsion about it. But whosoever has

two things, should give one to him, who has not. You should not wait, until he requests of

you. It is intended to be a voluntary, or humanitarian service. Knowing that you are the child

of The Father, whatever you have, share with other children of The Father less fortunate,

than yourself.

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THIS GOSPEL IS A SINE QUA NON TO EVERY BROTHERHOOD

I want every inhabitant, the world over, to know, this Gospel is the everlasting

principle, laid down in this New Kingdom of God, with which every person has to comply.

Once you are elected into Brotherhood, you should know, the practice of this Gospel is your

hobby, your extracurricular activity. When you begin to think about money, you will

appreciate, money in itself is nothing. In the same way, land is not useful in itself. Food, per

se is not useful, unless it is consumed by man. A motor vehicle is not useful in itself, when no

one enters to drive it. You erect a story building, reaching to the sky, if you do not practice

this Gospel, by giving the apartments of the house for people to live in, the house by itself is

not useful in anyway.

All the material possessions, you will appreciate, are not an end itself, but only means,

to an end. The end is The Gospel of Equality, sharing all you have with those who are not as

fortunate as yourself, so that every person can use the resources to serve God. God created all

things first, before He created man. He created water, dry land, trees, animals, food and all

other things, and kept them properly; preparatory to the creation of man, so that man might

use those things to maintain himself, and that all might be at peace; and that man should

superintend over all His creations. Man cannot live properly without these possessions.

Similarly, if man does not exist, the material possessions are void. God the Father is greater

than us, and we are greater than any of the possessions.

All possessions are under us, and in turn, we are under The Father, who owns

everything. God has created these things so we might be strengthened, and enabled to serve

Him, and glorify Him for His handiwork. That is why, the rich is cursed. "Woe unto you who

are rich, for you have received your consolation." (Luke 6:24) The rich will not enter into The Kingdom of God, for as long as they continue to amass wealth, put their money in the bank,

or build store houses, and keep their wealth, no useful purpose is served. Such an action does

no good to any person. What is it to you, if you erect a house, and furnish it heavily, but no

person lives in the house; the house becomes useless, and you, the builder are useless as well.

NO CLASS STRATIFICATION IN THE KINGDOM

In this Kingdom, there is no place set aside or a city created specifically for the rich,

where they keep their money and wealth. This means, no rich man has a place in the

Kingdom. In the Kingdom also, there is no place set aside specifically for a person, who has

many children, but would not want them to serve God and his fellow man. There is no room

for those, who build houses in all the towns and cities, and put up signs, "House to Let (Rent) ".

As a result of the number of houses they have built, they boast since they have houses in all

the towns, they should be allotted important places in the Kingdom. There is no room for

such house owners. That is why Our Lord Jesus Christ says: "What shall it profit a man, if he 25

gains the whole world, and loses his own soul, or what shall a man give in exchange for his

soul?" (Matthew 16:26) He also says: "Go to now, you rich men, weep and howl for your

miseries that shall come upon you." (James 5:1). How do those, who are rich in the things of

this world, look at their wealth? Do they regard them as pieces of furniture, or articles of

adornment? They are not for any of these purposes, but are given to them for safekeeping,

intended to be distributed to those who are less fortunate than themselves. Consequently,

they will not only have self-satisfaction, but also loose eternal life. Wealth is an instrument to us, and we are instruments to The Father. We have to employ these resources in the Service of

God, that there may be satisfactory service in The Father's Vineyard. All the currency minted

should be used in the Service of God, distributed to those who are poor. All food crops,

planted and harvested, should be used in feeding those who are hungry.

MAN'S PROPER FOOD PRESCRIBED

You have heard, in the beginning God said: "Behold, I have given you every herb

bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit

of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat." (Genesis 1:29) There is no place specifically allocated for money, or wealth to be kept, in this Kingdom of God. There is no place where

food is prepared and kept, without being eaten; but people keep watch over it, fanning it and

protecting it from being destroyed, from day to day.

When food is prepared, it is meant for people to eat, this is done every day. There is no

empty or unoccupied house, in this Kingdom, on the wall of which is inscribed: "house to let."

All are occupied. It is a wrong connotation to say, "Home to let." For whom is the home built?

Who built it? It is my home, and you own it, it is built for us. Do not put up that notice, and as soon as a house is erected, get in, eat there and sleep.

DELIBERATE ACTIONS CARRY HEAVIER PUNISHMENT

You should go home and sleep over this Gospel, and then ask yourself, to whom do all

the things belong. The things are owned by man, who has no second. It is said heaven and

earth belong to Jehovah, and the fullness thereof. What belongs to Him also belongs to His

children. That is why the Scripture has told us, a slave, who is ignorant of his lord's will, shall be beaten with few stripes. And so, if you do not know, all the food, and other material things

belong to man, and that you should use them for the benefit of your fellow man, you will be

inflicted with a few strokes of the cane. But any person, who has known the provision, since

this Gospel has now been imparted to the whole world, from high heaven, but fails to comply

with the provision, then he will be inflicted with many stripes. (Luke 12:47) I want this Gospel

to be properly written and circulated to all parts of the world, and to men of all stations in life from Queen Elizabeth of England, to the presidents of European and American countries,

because it is The Voice of God, descending upon the world. This Gospel is the cause of

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confusion and rebellion, death and sickness, the affliction and tribulations plaguing the

world. An English adage has it; a hungry man is an angry person. What will you tell a hungry

person, to induce him to listen to you?

DO NOT AMASS WEALTH FOR YOURSELF

The Wisdom of God is higher than that of man. So He started by creating the earth,

heaven, water, dry land, food and other things; so that, His children might not perish of

hunger, under pains of starvation. But you have not been instructed to accumulate all the

things, in reservation for yourself, as your bona fide property. You neither eat them, nor give

them out to others, but you preserve them there, while many are dying of starvation. Observe

that their souls will haunt you. The rich always argue, it is not a true statement, it is woe unto the rich, they cannot explain why they, who possess wealth, should be cursed. I want to tell

you, the statement is true. As long as you are rich in the things of this world, but you close the bowels of your kindness, by not distributing what you have to others, who are not as

fortunate as yourself, it is woe betides you.

BE NOT FORGETFUL IN ENTERTAINING STRANGERS

A great many people erroneously argue, food is nothing, but I tell you, food is an

important thing. Of all the material things enumerated, food occupies the first position.

When Our Lord Jesus Christ appeared unto His disciples after His resurrection, what did He

ask them? (Luke 24:41) What was the first thing done by Abraham and his wife, when the

angels went to their house? The first thing they did was to prepare food for the strangers.

(Genesis 18:4-8) That is why the Scriptures have advised; we should not be forgetful in

entertaining strangers. (Hebrews 13:2). Entertaining visitors is the first and foremost thing,

one should do. It was by entertaining strangers; Abraham had a share, in The Kingdom of

God. Do you not remember Our Lord Jesus Christ asked His disciples about the guest

chamber? What is a guest chamber or a guesthouse? Guest chambers are established

anywhere for strangers to lodge. This is the preliminary thing that should be done in

Brotherhood.

Very soon guesthouses will be established and opened so, whoever comes, lodges there,

eats, washes, and rests. What did Lot and his wife do, when those two angels entered their

home? (Genesis 19:1-3) The first thing was for them to prepare food for the strangers. What

did Rahab, the prostitute; do for the two spies from Israel, who visited Jericho? (Joshua 2:1-24)

The first thing she did was to entertain them, and to make them feel at home. She gave them

water to wash, food to eat, and a place to lie down. When the various signs and omens shown

by God, through Moses to convince Pharaoh, to release the children of Israel from bondage,

failed; because Pharaoh's heart was hardened, what was the last omen on the last day? God

instructed Moses to conduct a feast, using the first male of each animal, whether of sheep or

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of goat, or of any other animal slaughtered, roasted and eaten by the congregation, with

great jubilation, after which the Pharaoh will release the Israelites. That was the function of

food, you do not regard as anything. Who says food is not important?

THE IMPORTANCE OF FOOD

By what means did Jacob usurp the birthright of his brother Esau? It was through red

pottage of lentils. Returning from his hunting expedition, where Esau had killed large

animals, he was about to die from hunger. He asked for food but was told there was no food.

As he was almost fainting, he said to his brother Jacob: "feed me I pray you, with the same red pottage, for I am faint." But Jacob gave a condition: "Sell me this day your birthright." Esau told him: "Behold I am at the point of death, and what profit shall this birth right be to me?"

Esau therefore, with an oath, sold his birth right to Jacob, for a pottage of lentils. Jacob did

not usurp the birth right with any other device. And Esau did not consider it important to

consider his birth right, because when you are hungry you are not yourself any longer; you

will complain, and curse every person, and ask your God what sort of life you are living.

BLESSINGS ACCRUING FROM ENTERTAINMENT

When Isaac was about to die, he called Esau and told him: "my son I am old. I know not

the day of my death. Take your weapons and quiver and your bow, and go to the field, and

take me some venison, and make me savory meat such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may

eat, and that my soul may bless you, before I die." Why did Isaac not tell Esau, come and let me bless you, but said go and bring venison, and prepare savory meat? Why did the mother of

Jacob not urge Esau to go and receive blessings from his father? She did not say that because

she knew what it was. That was why she took a fat goat, and prepared delicious food for Jacob

to give to Isaac. This explains why it is said; we should not be forgetful to entertain strangers

for some have entertained angels unawares. (Hebrews 13:2).

When you argue, food is nothing, why is it, you have food enough and to spare in the

house, but you refuse to give a part to some other persons, who have nothing to eat? You

assert that you do not worship anything, but why do you have five naira, and the other

person has not even got one kobo, but you fail to give him even one naira? If your brother is

hungry and is sick, and has no clothes to cover his nakedness, you offer prayers over him and

he recuperates, but he is very hungry and naked, and you pray that God should be with him.

How is that? He is now naked and hungry. When he was sick he did not feel the pangs of

hunger, and he did not realize that he was nude, but you prayed, God should be with him, at

the time he is hungry, and has needs to wear clothes. Have you remembered what happened

between that widow and prophet Elijah? It was the question of food.

He was sent to hide himself by the brook Cherith, to drink from the brook, and ravens

were commanded to feed him every day. After a while the brook dried up, and he had to face

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the stark realities of life. But when he wanted to go up the hill, he met the widow who was

assigned to sustain him. (1st Kings 17:9). Following that kind gesture, The Father's work

continued to grow, from strength to strength. There are so many examples, I may not want to

cite here.

THE REPERCUSSIONS OF IDLENESS

Remember that rich king, who said the man of God was lazy, and for that reason

refused to help; but one of the wives always prepared food, and took to David, whom the king

referred to as an idle fellow. When he discovered, the wife used to sustain David, he was very

angry.

What happened at last? God took away all his wealth, and handed them over to

someone, who was prepared to use the wealth, in the glorification of The Kingdom of God.

Do you believe you are always afflicted for your failure to practice The Word of God,

delivered to you today? Sometimes when angels visit your house, they go there with good

news and wealth, but you dilly-dally, and wish, God should be with them. They will return

with the wealth. If in the past you considered, money was greater than a human being, you

should now repent, because you are overwhelmed with darkness. A human being is better

than food, or money, or motor vehicle and all other material things in the world. Man is

greater, and in a better position than all mundane things. I do not want to overload you with

these facts. Our First Lesson will now be read. Listen attentively to The Words of God.

First Bible Lesson: Luke 12: 48

But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few

stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom

men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.

Brethren, what is read to you is the foundation of Brotherhood of the Cross and Star.

This is the sole worker in all parts of the world. Have you not seen this foundation in this

Gospel? Are you not witnessing for Him? Are you not seeing these things for yourself? Is

there any point in time, when you were brought with sickness, and you were not cured of

your ailment, and in addition given food to eat? From the beginning of time, this has been

the order, to distribute wealth to every person, and share everything equally with everyone.

You have been elected, but you do not comply with the order. You have failed. Is there any

particular day, there was no food for any person in Brotherhood?

MAN OWNS NOTHING. GOD OWNS ALL

In Brotherhood there is no secret. Have you not seen the Guest House? It is not opened

for nothing. That is the real work of God. When Brotherhood will start in earnest, food will be

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prepared, and kept everywhere, in all nooks and crannies for people to eat. Clothes will be

kept too. Wherever you would want to go, a motor vehicle will be readily available. In this

New Kingdom, no person owns anything. Everything belongs to God. It is time for Him to use

all His wealth, to reveal His glory. When you watch carefully you will discover, you are very

healthy and strong. No person has dominion over you. If your family rejects you, what else do

you want? You have already eaten to your satisfaction.

You have food and a dwelling place; therefore, you should not bother yourself with

family property. What weapon has your family used to suppress you? Is it not food? They give

you a condition, if you continue to be Brotherhood, they will not educate you, and you will

not be assisted. They will disown you, and when you turn round to discover, you have no

kobo, you will have no better alternative than to remain with them, even under the pain of

death. You are aware of the system of policies; if you do not belong to a political party, which

holds the reins of power, then money cannot be given to you; but they want to use the money

as an inducement and as a bait, to cause you to cross, to their party. This is what obtains

everywhere in the world. It was the same trick Jacob applied, to usurp the birthright, of Esau.

(Genesis 25:31-33). This is the order of the day. Tell me why things will be well with a rich

man; in as much as, he has been given wealth by God, but he closes the bowels of his mercy

and kindness against the poor, who are dying of hunger. They do not understand the wealth

is not theirs. They are only caretakers. But they have chosen to reserve all the wealth for

themselves. They do not make use of them, nor do they eat them, nor give to others.

You do not come with anything into the world, nor will you take anything with you,

when you will return. Sometimes you are fortunate to be born into a family with a golden

spoon in your mouth, where everything has been ready-made for you. A very good

foundation, for your wealth is laid, and very soon you become very rich. But you bluntly

refuse to distribute them, to those less fortunate than yourself. What wisdom is there? If you

do not contribute your wealth, what then will be used, in the furtherance of The Work of God,

to all parts of the world? That is why it is said; whosoever does not comply with the master's

instruction, as a result of ignorance will be beaten with a few stripes. But when he has

known, all the riches bestowed on him belong to God, he should distribute them to the poor,

the needy, the afflicted and the wounded, to enable them to serve God, and so turn darkness

into light. If you accumulate all your riches, for yourself alone, instead of sharing them with

your fellow man, the punishment, which will be imposed on you, will be severe.

DAILY BREAD

When the disciples of Our Lord Jesus Christ asked the Master to teach them how to

pray, what did He teach them? He taught them to pray saying: "give us this day our daily

bread." He emphasized "Our Daily Bread." Has God not given you your Daily Bread? Whatever is left over, after your daily bread, does not belong to you. You should share the remaining

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ones with others, because He will continue to give you your bread, day by day, ad infinitum.

Whoever does not have this Gospel is an abominable man, a child of perdition. But if you

receive it, and practice it, you will be prosperous, wealthy, and healthy, and have eternal life.

And The Father will bestow all blessings on you, being regarded as a good storekeeper, into

whose care, The Father will entrust all His riches. And Our Lord Jesus Christ asks: "Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall make ruler, over His household; to give

them their portion of meat, in due season?" He continued to say: "Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing. Of a truth I say unto you, that He will

make him ruler over all that He hath." (Luke 12:43-44)

THE EVIL EFFECTS OF STRINGENCY

Have you not heard the parable of the five talents, the two talents and the one talent?

What was the five talents? It symbolizes a person who distributes his riches to others. If he

has two coats he will give one to somebody, who has none; and when The Father comes, he

will be made to rule over an extensive kingdom. If God has given you a lot of money or many

children, and you reserve all to yourself, instead of distributing them with others, or if you

inherited land, and other property, but refuse to share all with other persons, there is no

wisdom behind your action. If you do not distribute your riches to others, you are not only in

a pitiful situation, but you have also been condemned. What is the significance of one talent?

It symbolizes a very thrifty, and an unknown person. He is a tightfisted, stingy and miserly

person like you, who loves carnal things, more than things of God. Therefore, whosoever has

been bestowed with riches, and he fails to use them for the good of his fellow man, such a

person has his portion with unbelievers. He is in everlasting fire, burning with brimstone,

where he desires for life, and there is no life. Even if he desires to die, death runs away from

him. Tell it to the entire world, whosoever does not comply with the Words of this Gospel,

remains in eternal torment, and damnation.

Whether you attend church or not, whatever your church denomination is, whether

you are a Christian or not, this Gospel is for the inhabitants of the earth. No matter what

religious affiliation you have, whatever is your religion, whether Hindu, Judaism,

Mohammedanism, Christianity, Buddhism or any other, God's injunction is, if you have

much, you have to distribute to others who have not. Whether you are a member of the

Rosicrucian, Amorc, Ogboni, or any of the secret societies, God tells you to give part of your

wealth to others not as fortunate as yourself. It is not right that you should reserve anything

for yourself, but rather, distribute, all your resources to the poor, the pauper, the orphan, the

wounded, the sick and the maimed

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TAKE NO THOUGHT FOR THE MORROW

Brethren, can you remember what happened to the children of Israel, when they were

in the desert? In the wilderness, they were fed with manna, which fell like rain from heaven.

Everyday enough manna fell to feed them, according to the words of The Lord's Prayer, "give

us this day our daily bread." It is the promise of God that for every person born into the world, He has prepared enough for him; and not only humans, but also animals and birds, even the

sand on the ground are being catered for. As we are talking now, our food for tomorrow is

now ready, our food for next week, next month, next year, indeed, for every day, till eternity,

is ready. He has not refused to give us food, day by day.

The main trouble besetting the whole world is not what they will eat or drink, or put on,

but the selfish accumulation of wealth, which they preserve for themselves, without giving

out to any person, without using them, but allowing them to rot away, while a great many

people are dying of hunger. How many times will something happen to serve as a warning to

you? It has been said, every man's work shall be made manifest, for the day shall declare it;

and fire shall try every man's work, of what sort it is. What happened to you, during the

Nigerian Civil War? Were you left with even a kobo? Were you not going almost nude, like

animals? All your wealth had been gradually phased out, and you were left at the position of

abject poverty. What brought about the whole situation?

It is love for wealth, instead of God, who created them, and their fellow human beings.

This is God's instruction and advice. It is incumbent upon every person to abide by it, no

matter your station in life. No matter the figment of your body, do not seek to know anybody,

before you assist him. But once God has given you wealth, if you come across any person in

need, God wants you to use your wealth for the good of others, in love.

FAILURE TO DISTRIBUTE YOUR WEALTH BRINGS SUFFERING

I want to tell you what happens to you, when you complain, your wealth has been

seriously depleted, you are completely exhausted, or all your money has been taken away by

people, in an extortionate way; that some obtain it under false pretenses, some stolen by

thieves, and some of it was consumed in fire. It is because you are not faithful to God, and

you are beaten with few stripes, but there is another punishment, more serious than that and

which will afflict you in the future. As I have already told you, the children of Israel were fed

with manna from on high, day by day, but one of them collected the manna, after eating to

his satisfaction, he kept part to reserve it, for his tomorrow's meal.

At any point in time, in every community there must be a tempter, and the temptation

must also be revealed to somebody. In the morning the manna melted. It is this selfish

attitude, which has brought about all the woes and wretchedness in the world. Sometime ago,

Nigeria was said to be the richest country. She even started giving loans to other countries.

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But today she is the poorest country. Why has she become the poorest country, now? It is

because she has not assisted the poor and the needy. She does not make good use of the

money. Those in power put the country's money, into their own pockets. Others struggle to

share the national cake, each trying to grab as much as, they can keep. In the course of these

struggles, various avenues are opened through which thieves and swindlers also share in the

booty.

God knows all about Nigeria. A great many people suffer and are afflicted, as a result

of this attitude. Every time it is reported, a house has been burnt; thieves have broken into

the banks; robbers have burglarized a shop. Have you used your means to help the

unfortunate ones, as God has instructed?

NO PRECONDITION FOR ASSISTING THOSE LESS FORTUNATE THAN YOURSELF

If we were to understand, the wisdom given us by God, is meant to be used for the good

of others, so that we remain in peace; then all money given us, is meant to be used in

common, with our fellow man. All other things we have, are meant to be used, by mankind in

common. God does not regard, one thing is inferior or superior, to the other. What remains to

be done is for us to make good use of these resources, in the Service of God; and for the good

of our fellow workers, in the vineyard. This statement does not imply, if you do not have, you

should give. The statement is quite plain. He says those who have two coats, should impart

one to those, who have none. Those who have should give to those who have not, so, there

should be no sadness, no weeping, no regrets in this Kingdom, and so there may be no

sickness. Do not set any condition for anything you do; neither promise paying at the end of

the month, nor pledge to your property to indemnify yourself, or ask for a fee, before you

render any services. If you behave in this way, you are completely overwhelmed with

darkness, and great suffering. Brethren, it does not so much matter whether you are

educated or not, for high educational attainment, cannot influence it. Whether you sing or

do not sing, has nothing to do with it. Dexterous dance cannot also influence the turn of

events. You cannot be exempted, no matter what your station in life has been. Whatsoever

God has bestowed on you, use them in helping those, who have not. Once you do this, it is

enough evidence; you are practicing The Word of God.

THE SPIRIT OF ONENESS

There are now certain countries practicing "oneness," communism. If therefore, every

person in our country practices this Gospel, there will be no theft, no death, no sickness, and

murder will be considerably reduced, and every person will remain in peace and tranquility.

That is what I have brought. What you hear today is the real truth, and it is Brotherhood.

Every person should be engaged somehow, in order to help others less fortunate than

himself. This does not mean people should be idle. All hands should be on deck, producing

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something not only to support one's self, but also to assist others. He has given you hands to

work for Him. He has given you eyes to see, for Him; and He has given you the mind to

reason, for Him. This is not a matter to wait until it is revealed to you in a vision, or until you have a dream.

The Spirit has already told you to work and earn a living, and, whatever you have

should be used in the Service of God. Whether we like it or not, that is the indebtedness of

every person to God. And if you do not comply with it, you are lost. It is said, to obey, is better than sacrifice, and to harken than, the fat of rams. Do what you may, you only deceive

yourself, if you are rich in the things of this world, but you see your brother, who is in want

and has need; but you shut up your bowels of compassion from him. How can the love of God

dwell in you?

God has given you one thousand naira, but you come across a brother, who does not

even have a kobo, neither has he any clothing to cover his nudity, must you wait for him to

ask you for aid, when you have known his need? You have to give him money, buy clothes for

him, and arrange for his food. God will surely bless you. This provision is neither grievous,

nor burdensome on you. If you have only one, you have no problem. God Himself knows, you

have only one, and cannot give it away to another person. This injunction is not binding on

you. In the same token, if two of you have equal quantities of goods, it does not imply, you

should add your own, to what he already has. The injunction is also not binding on you. It

does not imply, if two of you have twenty things each, you should add ten of yours to his, so

that he may have thirty, while you have ten. What it does imply is that all those, who have,

should look after those, who have not. Our Second Lesson will now be read, because in the

mouth of two or three witnesses, every word may be established.

Second Bible Lesson: Luke 3: 11

He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath

none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise.

Brethren, have you heard what has been read to you? He has merely used these two

items to serve as examples. This is the finality of The Gospel of God. These two examples are

meant to help you work out a system, of distribution, of all other possessions, of yours.

Decide within you and take it, as a point of duty. Whoever is lacking in anything, if you have

two of them, give one to the person, who has none. You shall have then complied with the

instruction of God.

If you come across somebody, who has children, but has no food to feed them, and you

have enough food, send food to them; and henceforth, you have to look after them food wise.

If you have a number of children, but know of someone, who has no child to fetch water for

him, you have to send some of your children, to serve him. With whatever item you have been

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blessed with by God, whether food or land, or house, or any other thing, since that particular

thing is not yours it belongs to God; and it is God who owns it, you are bound to share with

others. He has given this injunction that any person, who has two coats, should give one to

him, who has none. He who has food should do likewise. And every other item should be

treated in the same way. This instruction does not come from man, but from God. Those who

are blessed abundantly, but who refuse to give out to others, are regarded as saboteurs.

SPIRITUAL INSPECTION

Angels are now going from house to house inspecting the attitude of every person.

That is why there are so many losses, and people suffer from diverse forms of illness.

Sometimes they are sick to the point of spending all their money to obtain treatment and yet

no success. What has brought about bribery and corruption? Is it not for this very reason?

What brings about robbery? Is it not misery? What prompts necromancy and preparation of

concoctions? It is the same thing. All the sins and vices plaguing this world emanate from

this Gospel. If we, therefore, abide by The Words of The Gospel, there would be no problem

and difficulty, no theft, no falsehood, no exasperation, no deceit and no sickness. Abiding by

this Gospel is not grievous. Whatever you are blessed with does not belong to you; whether it

is money, food, house, land, children, all are given by God; and you are ignorant of how they

managed their way, into your hands. It is expedient that, since nothing belongs to you,

distribute these things to those less fortunate than yourself. So Brethren, if you have not put

into practice this Gospel, you have not yet started The Work of God. Sometimes a person may

have money, but when you ask him for aid he denies that he has. This is different from a case

in which somebody has been known to be koboless (penniless), but you have money. What

prevents you from giving money to such a poor person?

IT IS BETTER TO GIVE THAN TO RECEIVE (ACTS 20:35)

God has never instructed you to give a loan of ten thousand naira to any person.

Somebody, who already has five thousand naira, comes to you to obtain a loan of ten

thousand naira. What does he want to do with the money? It is said, "he who has two coats

should give one to him, who has none." Sometimes somebody has five naira, but goes to

another person to borrow five naira, to make ten naira for his need. If I am placed in that

position, I would not give you, because you have not exhausted the five naira you have. God

has not implied, you should give to those, who already have, but He says: "Anyone who has

two coats should give one to him who has none." He who has food and other things should do

the same thing. The emphasis is on, "Those who have none."

Unless you have never experienced poverty, you will be ignorant of the condition of the

poor ones. Poverty or want is the worst sickness, in the world. If there is a person, who does

not have even a kobo or cloth to wear, such a person is not fit to live. Do not joke with any

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person, who is in a position of abject poverty. If you toy with him, he can cut off your head, or

deal with you anyhow. On the other hand whenever you come across somebody in lack, if you

give him even one kobo he will be very happy, knocking his head on the ground several times,

and will pray that God should bless you. Indeed, God will bless you.

It is incumbent upon you to abide by this Gospel. We should neither add nor subtract

anything from The Gospel. Take note, when you get out from here, you should not go begging,

somebody should give you soutane. What about the one you are wearing is it yet torn into

rags?

TO WHOM MUCH IS GIVEN, MUCH IS REQUIRED

There may be a sick person, who has money, but he wants to recover from illness. If you

give him money has he complained he needs money? He wants to be well. There may be

another person, who has both food and money, but he is illiterate. He cannot even write a

letter, and is asking for somebody, who will write a letter for him, but he cannot find anyone.

When you go there and give him money, does he require your money? He wants you to write

a letter for him. Go and write, since you are educated. We should be extremely careful in

practicing this Gospel. We should not practice it in a way, which does not give glory to God.

God has said, anyone who has two coats should impart one to him who has none. He who has

food, houses or other things, whenever you have two things, give one to him who has none, so

that you may be equal.

God has never tempted man. If you have not, he will not advise you to steal from

another person. But He says any person who has should give to you. It is said, "To whom much

is given, much is also required." (Luke 12:48) If he does not give, what will be required from you? He rather wants somebody who is abundantly provided to give to you. This Gospel does

not work any evil to any person, who has nothing; neither does it work evil to him who has,

but it is beneficial to both. Why those who are rich suffer is, they conserve all they have, for

themselves. They may be hopelessly sick, they spend a lot of money to obtain treatment. They

may be beset with diverse problems and difficulties, losses, and bankruptcy, because they

have refused to distribute their wealth to the poor, the needy, the orphans and the wounded.

For not giving to those people you are suffering, as an unbeliever. Sometimes you are

induced to drink like the bee; and you spend all your money, and that is when you are in a

state of penury. I can also induce you to be a chain smoker, or chronic fornicator, or a

notorious idolater. If you were able to abide by the instructions, those problems would be

solved, and you would call a halt, to the sinful behavior. It is God Himself who has caused you

to spend your money in these ways, because you refuse to spend it in the Service of God, by

showing kindness and benevolence to those less fortunate, than yourself.

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HANNAH PRACTICED THE GOSPEL

There is no other medium through which you can be prosperous, and have glory, and

also enter into The Kingdom of God, apart from practicing The Gospel of this day. The only

way through which you can be poor and wretched, and have all your wealth taken away from

you, is by your rejection of this Gospel, and the instructions contained therein. Any person in

the world, who rejects the instructions imparted today, has rejected his life, and his very

existence. What is the wisdom in your having all the wealth, but you are of no assistance to

any person, and after sometime you pass away? It means, both you, and your wealth are lost.

Have you not heard what the Scripture says, "he who has, to him shall be given, and he who

has not, from him shall be taken, even, which he has." (Matthew 13:12, Matthew 25:29). God

knew Eli and his two sons would be taken away. But Hannah surrendered her only son to Eli,

even though she was barren. But by giving her only child to Eli, God gave her five other

children. What did she lose? If you practice this Gospel, you will never again be poor or

wretched. You have entered heaven, and you will be friendly with all men. You will be a good

person. You will have peace. Sickness and wretchedness will be taken away. Our Golden Text

will now be read.

Golden Text: 2nd Corinthians 8: 14

But by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that

their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality.

Brethren, notice The Wisdom of God. That is why, when you are sent as a light into your

family, sell the light to every other person; do not regard it as your bona fide property. Use it

equally for the good of all men. In your village or community, whatever God has bestowed on

you, should be used in a very beneficial way to all. Whatever God has bestowed to anyone in

this world, should be used in assisting, and aiding others. This is the divine order of God. He is never discriminatory. You are aware; He loves every person in the same way. He thinks about

every person in the same way.

YOU ARE ONLY A STEWARD

You have heard, Adam was appointed to superintend over and control all God's

creations. God has appointed man to look after His own handiwork. God cannot pour money

along the street, at the market square, inside your house, and instruct the money to begin

work. But money is given to man by God, and to be used in His own Service. He has also

bestowed money, and other wealth for you to use for the good of mankind; and so glorify

God. You will not find it difficult to distribute the wealth you have gathered, once you have

the understanding, you are a treasurer, a steward, a messenger, and an administrator of

estates; and so you are aware, they do not belong to you, but to The Father, and that The

Owner has come.

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IF YOU PRACTICE THIS GOSPEL, YOU HAVE A KINGDOM TO RULE

What He has promised you is, if you practice His Words appropriately and uprightly,

when He comes to inspect your performance, He will give you a large kingdom to rule over,

and will bestow all riches to you, and make everything quite clear to you. All the power, glory

and ruler ship that we want are based on this Gospel, i.e. whether you have used your

resources, to assist your fellow man, in the service of God. From today you should regard

yourself as borrowing all parts of your body. He only loaned His eyes and ears; the hands,

wisdom, children, money and every other thing are but His own, and you, as a contractor, are

given the tools to execute the contract.

If you patiently and meekly execute your contract, without doing the work for your

own aggrandizement, without stealing or reserving one for yourself, when He comes He will

catapult you to the highest position, which you had never thought of occupying. In order to

benefit from it, you should not regard anything you have gathered as your own, but that all

belong to God; and, whatever you distribute are not distributed by you, but that God has

graciously and kindly given them to His children. You will be quite free. You will not quarrel

with any person. You will not bother yourself struggling for wealth but will realize that

nothing belongs to you, that God owns everything; and you will continue to practice as you

do, for God. That is why, I continue to tell you, Brotherhood is not yet understood by many,

because I see you people struggling for one thing or the other.

Every person tries to grab as much as he can; and conserve for himself, as his bona fide

property. That is why thieves are so attracted they break in to steal. Some become rotten,

some are lost, and others are thrown away.

WHAT YOU HAVE IS NOT MEANT FOR YOUR FAMILY ALONE

When you are given money, you take it to your family. When you are given a car, you

keep it for your use alone. When you are given land, you keep it as your bona fide property.

You are given food, and you keep it for yourself alone. When you behave in the ways

enumerated, you will appreciate, your eyes are not yet opened. This Gospel does not refer to

your family. If your family is bestowed with wealth, they have enough to eat and to spare.

They also owe a debt to give some of what they have to those, who are not as fortunate, as

they are. If your village is very rich, every person owning property should give the extra they

have to others. You are told to give to him, who has none. It is a very pitiful situation to find

people, who already are rich, who go to beg. Upon all that you have and the money in your

pocket; have you already exhausted these? When you go to collect property from several

people, are you not content with what you have? You are working for wretchedness to

yourself.

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You build a house and give it out for rent. But you go, to put up with another person, in

a small congested and inconvenient apartment, and always complain to people you have no

quarters. Note, your house, can be demolished. You have food, but you hide it; and when

another person brings food, you eat with him, complaining that you have no food. Note also

that, the food that you preserve for yourself will be stolen. The greatest mistake people make

in Brotherhood is: "as the Father likes it." I tell you, you are doing a great harm to yourself, because before you realize what is happening, your cars have all gone, and your houses taken

away from you, and you suffer in addition.

IT IS INCUMBENT UPON EVERY PERSON TO DISTRIBUTE

If you are a preacher, but you have money, houses and other things, why do you also

collect money from people? You should rather distribute your resources to other preachers,

who have nothing. It is not for you to receive pay from others, since you are actually

rendering the services to God. At the time you came into Brotherhood, as a poor person, you

were given food and clothing. But after you had been healed of your ailment, and you began

to own certain things, why do you still want to go begging for food and clothing? Why do you

keep these things to yourself alone? Whosoever has one or two properties, but is looking for

more, is a thief.

IN BROTHERHOOD ALL ARE EQUAL

I give this Gospel that it may be circulated to all parts of the world, because what brings

about trouble, problems, death, sickness, poverty and tribulation is this Gospel. Have you not

seen what God has done in this fold? He does not discriminate between the various classes of

people. Every person is regarded as equal, and the same treatment is given to every person.

But people have taken undue advantage, and have closed the avenues of assistance. In

Brotherhood every person is the same. But this does not imply that every person has the same

amount of money, or that every person has the same amount of education. But it is that those

who have should help those who have none; and that everything should be used in common,

so, there may be equality, and so, there may be no difference between the rich and the poor.

I know, this lesson has been revealed to many by God, and they are practicing it, while

others do not make any attempt, but regard those who comply as foolish persons. They walk

about, telling people that they are in lack, thinking that they are deceiving God. Do not forget

what happened to Judas Iscariot. The same thing can happen to them. Notice that Our Lord

Jesus Christ started this Faith and this Work, i.e. the establishment of one common purse.

Therefore, wherever the Children of God are found, there should also be established one

common purse, the proceeds of which should be distributed to all, that there may be equality.

That is The Kingdom of God; and it is, what I have brought, to the world.

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You are urged to remember the orphans. When Paul and Barnabas met with Peter and

the other Apostles, they told them to remember the orphans. Right from today you have to

remember the orphans. Think about them, and assist them. Poverty is the worst sickness

prayer cannot take it away. Always help those less fortunate than yourself. Brethren, I do not

intend to be tedious unto you. One stroke of the cane is sufficient for the wise. Those who

have ears let them hear; and may God Bless His Words. Amen.

THANK YOU FATHER.

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THE FOURTH STEP TO GOD

WHOSOEVER DOES THE WILL OF GOD IS A CHILD OF GOD

1st BIBLE LESSON: MATTHEW 12:50

For whosoever shall do the will of my Father, which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and

sister, and mother.

GOLDEN TEXT: ACTS 4:32-33

And the multitude of them that believed were, of one heart and of one soul: neither said any

of them that ought of the things, which he possessed, was his own; but they had all things

common. And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord

Jesus: and great grace was upon them all.

THE AIM OF BROTHERHOOD

Brethren that is what we are going to reveal to you today, "What is Brotherhood of the

Cross and Star?" This is what has been read out to you. The theme of this gospel is the aim of Brotherhood of the Cross and Star. Whosoever does what God likes, irrespective of his tribe

and nationality, is the Son of God. In this new kingdom of God, we do not know a person

because of blood relationship but one is known by God if you do what he likes. You will

discover that people have strayed from the wisdom of God.

We are told to have love, peace, mercy, kindness, temperance, self-control, endurance,

patience, meekness, humility, tolerance and forgiveness. These virtues will unite us into

oneness and give us the right to enter into this new Kingdom. The children of this new

kingdom are the children of promise. Who are the children of promise? They are those who

only do the will of God.

I have earlier told you that money food, tribe, nationality, or book knowledge does not

give you the right to enter into this new kingdom of God. What gives you the right to enter

into this new Kingdom is to hear and practice all the words of God that you have received.

Whether you are black or white, male or female has nothing to do with this new Kingdom.

Our Lord Jesus Christ died and resurrected and lives because of this gospel. You know that we

have some booklets entitled the First step to God, Second step to God, Third step to God and

this gospel will be the Fourth step to God. Our Lord Jesus Christ is the way, the truth and the

life. Originally human beings were one. They ate together and did everything in common.

Now the situation has changed. There is a division between a wife and her husband, brothers

and sisters, father and children and nations and nations. This situation has brought

hardship, afflictions, poverty and death into the world. Unless we practice the Gospels we

receive daily, there can be no peace in the world. That is why our Lord Jesus Christ says, "I am the way, the truth and the life, no one can come to the father, except by me." If we do not

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practice the gospel, we can never be united. When you say our Lord Jesus Christ is a good

friend of sinners, but I say that unless you practice the teachings of Christ, he cannot be your

friend. You say that our Lord Jesus Christ is your brother, but I say that he cannot be your

brother if you do not practice his teachings.

You say that our Lord Jesus Christ is your God, he cannot be God to those who do not

abide by his teachings it is an easy thing for us to listen to his teachings and put them into

practice. There is a lot to gain, if we practice the words of God, which we receive. Remember

the woman who said to our Lord Jesus Christ, "Blessed is the womb that bore thee and the pap

that gave thee suck," what answer did our Lord Jesus Christ give to her? He said it is more

blessed for the man who hears the word of God and puts it into practice. Therefore all

blessings glory and peace, hang on practicing the word of God, sometimes you imagine

yourself as the son of Joseph or that you were born in Bethlehem like our Lord Jesus Christ

but "I tell you that even if you are the father to our Lord Jesus Christ, or that you were born in Bethlehem like our Lord Jesus Christ himself, if you do not practice the word of God, it profits

you nothing. Our Lord Jesus Christ died so that all those who practice the word of God may

become united. He did not die for those who will not practice his words. He does not also live

unto those who do not practice his words. Our Lord Jesus Christ died and resurrected for

those who will hear his words and put them into practice.

THOSE VERSED IN THE WORD OF GOD ARE BUILDINGS SET ON ROCK

Our Lord Jesus Christ liked those who hear his words and practice them to a house built

on a rock. When the storm comes, it cannot be shaken. When the flood comes, it cannot be

swept away.

THE WORD OF GOD UNIFIES ALL RACES OF PEOPLE

Let us be those who hear the words of God and put them into practice. We should not

come into this kingdom because of visions food and drink, clothes and other mundane

things. Come into this kingdom with the aim of hearing the word of God and putting it into

practice. That is why our Lord Jesus Christ said that anyone who does not drink my blood and

eat my flesh has not eternal life in him. A wife and the husband cannot be one if they do not

practice the words of God, child and the father cannot be one, if they do not practice the word

of God. We find division and segregation where the word of God is lacking. The government

cannot make the people in the whole world to become united. There is no other teaching

apart from the word of God that can unite the whole world. The worldly doctrine causes

division among different races in the world. If people practice the word of God, the entire

human race will become one.

The Gospel that we receive from 1st January to 31st December, every year is that all

those who receive these Gospels and practice them may become united. You will discover that

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neither the black race nor the white race practices the word of God. Had they practice the

word of God; there would have been no division in the world. If we were to practice the word

of God barren women would not have sought for children and those who have only female

children would not have sought for male children and vice versa. It is not the brother or sister

born from the same womb who is your brother or sister, neither the children from your

womb who are your children. The whole world had failed because she feels that the children

born out of their own womb are there real children. If you regard your carnal father as your

real father, you fail. When you feel that you should assist your town’s man so that you may

be remembered, you also fail. The whole world has failed because she claims to be looking for

their relations, sons, fathers and their town’s people.

This kingdom does not belong to the children of the flesh. No worldly person has a

share in this new kingdom. This kingdom was given to Abraham because of his faith that

worked in love. Abraham is not a friend of God because he claimed equality with God he

became a friend of God because he did what God liked.

ONLY THOSE WHO PRACTICE THE WORD OF GOD ARE BROTHERS

If you study the Bible you will discover that Abraham was not among those who came

from heaven. Why is Abraham now called the father of Nations? Why is it that every person

is now the child of Abraham? It is because he did what God liked. That is why our Lord Jesus

Christ says "Whoever rejects me and my words, I will not condemn him, but these words will

judge him on the last day. If you practice the word of God and your child does not practice it

both of you are not one. If the husband practices the word of God, and the wife does not, both

of them are not one. If you practice the word of God and your friend does not, there will be a

great difference between you. That is why you may address someone as your brother and he

will reply that he is not your brother.

Remember when our Lord Jesus Christ told the disciples that "If you do what I tell you, I

will not call you servants but friends." because a servant does not know what his master does.

You and your friend confined in one another and dress in the same way and this shows

equality. We have so many things to learn in brotherhood. It appears we have not yet started.

If you are not a thief why then do you call somebody who is a thief, brother? When you do

this, you are also a thief. "How can you call somebody who is a fornicator, sister?" When you are not a fornicator. The term brother or sister means maintaining a state of equality with a

person who does not commit sin. When you say that a person is your sister, it means that she

does not fornicate, neither do you that is the reason why the white race does not trust the

blacks. The black race, does not know the meaning of friends neither do they know what is

called, brother.

The black race does not understand what man is. For example you may meet a person

in the Bible class today and tomorrow when you see him on the street, you call him or her a

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brother or sister, "do you know whether he or she is a rogue or a thief?" If you ask a white man to identify a person, he will tell you exactly the time and date that he met that person,

and what the person is.

IF YOU DO NOT PRACTICE THE WORD OF GOD YOU ARE NOT HIS CHILD

This statement is true but a black man will claim that he knows such a person very

well. Does he know whether the man is a thief? When you make such statements, you

implicate yourself. That is why the Bible says "But now I have written unto you not to keep

company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a

railer, or a drunkard or an extortion with such an one do not eat." How is it that you do not drink or make concoctions and charms, do not lie, or become easily annoyed but then you go

to associate with a person who indulges in all these vices? Why do you keep company with

such a person? "How can such a person be your brother, does it mean that you are like him?

This is what brings troubles and problems into the world. As soon as you seen someone you

take him as your brother or sister. From this you will realize that the wisdom of our Lord

Jesus Christ is above all the wisdom in the world. Our Lord Jesus Christ knows what man is

therefore no human being can deceive him. Remember when he was addressing his disciples

somebody came and told him that his mother and sisters were outside waiting for him. He

asked the fellow "Who is my mother and who are my brothers and sisters?"

Anyone who does the will of my father who is in heaven is my brother and sister. This

indicates that we do not know our position in brotherhood and where we are going. If your

child is a thief and you are not, you still call that child your own. Why is it that some people

are called Satan and others are called the children of God? Why is it that God addressed only

our Lord Jesus Christ as "my beloved son" and no other person in this world? The Scriptures says that the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayers.

But his back is turned to the evildoers. You will discover that when you sin, you are not a child

of God and God does not regard you as his son. Do not allow anybody to deceive you that an

evildoer is the child of God. All those who hear the word of God and practice them are the

children of God. So it is in this new Kingdom. All those who hear the words of God and

practice them are the true sons of this kingdom. Brethren, we should forget about our pride

and pomposity that Brotherhood of the Cross and Star is revealed in Africa. Rather we should

thank God if he gives us the ability to hear the word of God and put it into practice.

A TREE IS KNOWN BY ITS FRUITS

Today, what did our Lord Jesus Christ say? He said, "Blessed are those who hear the

word of God and endeavor to put them into practice. Not all those who call me Lord! Lord!

Will enter into the kingdom of God, but those who do the will of my father which is in

heaven." Therefore if it is only one or two who practice the words of God, they are better than 44

50,000 people who do not practice the word of God. Now nobody is known by his color, tribe,

nationality, or beauty but you are known if you practice the word of God.

Brethren, it is not my wish to be tedious with you, let our first lesson be read.

1st LESSON ST. MATTHEW 12:50

For whosoever shall do the will of my Father, which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and

sister, and mother.

IF YOU DESIRE TO LIVE KEEP THE WORDS OF GOD

I want to have this gospel by tomorrow, although it is not long, it is the key to this

kingdom. Why the father teaches us to refrain from fornication, anger, hatred and other

vices, is that we may be qualified to be called brothers and sisters. No matter how wealthy

you may be, if you do not do what is pleasing to our Lord Jesus Christ you are not his brother.

If you have so much faith that you can raise the dead, open the eyes of the blind, make the

lame to walk and perform all other miracles, if you do not do what God likes, you are not a

brother. On the day of reckoning, many people will say, Lord did I not cast out demons in thy

name, raise the dead, and open the eyes of the blind." And the Lord will say unto them depart from me, I do not know you, ye workers of iniquity." Any person who is friendly with a sinner is a sinful person also. This knowledge is the key to this kingdom. You should examine

yourselves if you do not practice the word of God you are not a brother or a sister in this

kingdom.

If you want to be a real brother, sister or mother in this new kingdom practice this

word of God, do not steal, lie, kill, but love your neighbor as yourself. Forget about your name

in this kingdom, whether Pastor, Deaconess, Christ servant, Christ student, Apostle, Elders,

Choristers, the Pope and the Archbishops. all these names are irrelevant, only those who

practice the word of God, are the real brotherhood. In a short time, this gospel will come to

manifest. People want to know which person is loved most in brotherhood, by the Holy Father

and mother; it is the person who practices the word of God. God does not love any person

apart from those who practice his gospel be they black or white. If only two or three persons

practice the word of God, if they are put together there would be no segregation, fighting and

quarreling. To establish the new kingdom of God here on earth does not consist in building

big cathedrals, but it is only those who practice the word of God who build up this kingdom.

We have problems in as much as we do not practice the word of God, because there would be

hated, stealing from one another and killing one another and so confusion would prevail.

IF YOU LOVE ME DO MY WORDS

Why did our Lord Jesus Christ handover the sheep of God into the hands of Peter? Peter

and our Lord Jesus Christ would were not from the same family or tribe. The Christ handed

over the sheep of God into his hands even though his own carnal brothers and sisters were

alive. The reason is that Peter loved him and practice the word of God. Christ asked Simon

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Peter "Do you love me more than any other thing in the world" Peter answered "Lord, thou knowest that I love you more than anything in the world." The Christ said, "Feed my sheep."

While he was on the cross why did our Lord Jesus Christ not hand over his mother to James,

John or any of the others? The reason was that our Lord Jesus Christ was practicing this

gospel. He surrendered his mother to John who did not come from his tribe because John

practiced the word of God.

Now what is happening in the world is that no matter how sinful your blood relation is

you would surrender all your property to that person. Which means that you are laying your

foundation on sand. Perhaps your son is a thief and does not believe in God but there is

another child who is honest, devoted and faithful to God but does not come from your family,

you will not like to draw such a child to yourself, but attach importance to your son who is a

rogue. Your mother is a witch and a confusionist, there is also another woman who fears and

reverence God but is not your mother, but you will attach importance to your carnal mother

and ignore the woman who fears God, in so doing you are an abominable person. Our

problem is that we do not practice the word of God but soon we shall see the whites coming

here and remaining together, because they practice the word of God.

Why there is no progress among the blacks is because they entrust all their valuable

possessions into the hands of those who do not believe in God. The Europeans are blessed by

God because whenever they find an organization where the truth is found, they will invest all

their wealth there. Even though the people founded such an organization are not their

relations, they will put all their resources there and regard that place as their own family.

Europeans have endeavored to practice the word of God but their problem is that they do not

have the Holy Spirit. Now that the Holy Spirit is on earth, they will also have a share in the

Holy Spirit.

YOUR NATIONALITY IS IRRELEVANT IN THE KINGDOM

For one to claim that he does not come from Biakpan, Cross River State, or that he is

not the Son of Obu is irrelevant. Our duty is to unite together with God. God is no respecter of

persons. Whether you come from Biakpan or not or you are Obu's Son, or from the Cross

River State, Nigeria or Africa, if you do not practice the word of God you will not enter this

kingdom. Let someone come from Russia, India, America or any part of the world, but puts

into practice the doctrines of the Holy Father, he is a real brotherhood. This gospel is very

important and it is the foundation stone of this kingdom. Any person, who desires to be a real

brotherhood, should be given this gospel. If he jokes with it, it means that he has only come in

here to play.

THE CHILDREN OF GOD PRACTICE THE WORD OF GOD

Your claim to be the first son of Obu or to be his child, or his mother or to know him, to

have been in Brotherhood 20 years, is useless unless you practice the word of God, all these

claims are irrelevant and will not profit you anything. To claim to be a visioner or to have

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opened 20 stations, or to have conducted open-air service but in as much as you do not do

what God likes, you are nothing in this kingdom. Nothing unites you with God apart from

practicing his words. That is why our Lord Jesus Christ says, "He that is sent by God speaks the word of God and God does not give him the Spirit by measure. The children of God hear the

word of God and practice the word of God. You do not hear the word of God or do not practice

the word of God because you are not a child of God. The children of God understand the word

of God, while the children of the world do not understand the word of God.

If you practice one word of God, your eyes will be opened and you will not be able to

associate with or trust those who do not practice the word of God. To keep company with a

person who does not practice the word of God is like someone putting his precious gems

before the swine. The reason why communities companies, firms, corporations, governments

and churches fail is that they behave according to the directives of the flesh. The Scripture

says that you should sell all that you have and give them out to the poor, then come and

follow God. When you sell all your possessions to a person who does not believe in God, such

an action is useless and both the giver and the recipient will perish. The word of God says flee

youthful lust and follow after those who call upon the name of the Lord with a pure heart.

When you run away from sin and then go and meet someone who is in sin, it means that you

have jumped out of the frying pan into the fire. "I had preserved this gospel. I do not know

why I have released it to you today. When you look into the memorandum you find it there."

Anyone who does not practice this particular gospel will never enter into this kingdom.

Whatever sin a person remains in brotherhood to commit does not interest me,

because I know that such a person will never enter into this new kingdom of God. Any person

who comes into the brotherhood and completely surrenders himself to the will of God, such a

person is on the right path of righteousness and the gateman will open the gate for him. Do

you believe that the real children of this new Kingdom are so many in the overseas countries

and they are coming? Our golden text will now be read.

GOLDEN TEXT: ACTS 4:32-33

And the multitude of them that believed were, of one heart and of one soul: neither said any

of them that ought of the things, which he possessed, was his own; but they had all things

common. And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord

Jesus: and great grace was upon them all.

WHOSOEVER DOSE NOT PRACTICE THE WORD OF GOD IS A REBEL

Many of our brethren who practice righteousness and later on commit sins are

harming themselves, because God has nothing to do with a sinner. Anyone who does not

practice the word of God is a rebel and a wanted person. Since God created human beings no

one can be compared to our Lord Jesus Christ. Of all the prophets and patriarchs, it is only our

Lord Jesus Christ that God said, "This is my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased, hear ye

him" Since he did the will of God, God raised his name above any other name in the whole

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world. God uses his own words to beget us. Any person who hears and practices the word of

God is a true child of God.

There is nothing on earth that qualifies you as a true child of God apart from your

ability to practice the word of God. "And all those who believed were together and have all

things in common and sold their possessions and goods and parted them to all men. There

was no division, quarreling, stealing or any confusion among them. They ate their food in joy

and gladness's. To entrust your possessions into the hands of an unbeliever is likened to one

entrusting his goats under the case of a tiger. The following day all the goats would have been

devoured by the tiger. The wife and the husband will profess to practice common purse while

the husband is a flirt and a gambler, there will never be any prosperity in such a family

because the husband will always misuse the money.

Before a white man can give a loan of $20 to someone he will, first of all, want to know

how much the person earns. If the man earns $20 a month, a white man can never give him a

loan of five dollars. The reason why the white man will not give him this loan is that the man

is a civil servant and will not be able to save anything after his monthly expenditure in order

to defray his debt. In the case of a black man, he will give you a loan of a $100 even though

you only earn $30 a month. Such a loan can never be repaid, when the lender goes to demand

back his loan, the recipient of the loan will tell him that he only earns $30 a month and

therefore, cannot afford to repay such a loan. In such a situation who is to be blamed?

THERE MUST BE EQUALITY

The situation is exactly the same as when we call a very wicked person a brother. If you

give your money to a thief to keep for you and that thief goes to steal and a search is

conducted in his house do you think that your money will be refunded to you? This period in

brotherhood is not the time for falsehood. If you are in partnership with someone who has

the same spirit as yourself, there will be no cheating or deceit. It is not an easy thing for two

people to agree in principle. What brotherhood has come to do is to collect everybody and all

their possessions together so that there may be one mind and one spirit. If there are two or

three persons who have the same mind and one spirit and they practice one common purse

there would be prosperity and growth in their midst. Our Lord Jesus Christ said that all those

who enter into the house through the window are thieves and robbers. Any person who

passes through the gate into the house, to such a person the gate man will open the gate for

him and he will lead the sheep and they will follow him.

We can deceive human beings, but we cannot deceive God, he knows the mind of all the

people in the world because he is their Creator. No matter how cunning and crafty we are,

God knows all and this behavior will not profit us anything. At the time of Cain and Abel, God

directed that they should make sacrifices to him. Able offered an acceptable sacrifice unto

God while Cain only deceived himself. The sacrifice of Able, which was acceptable to God was

counted for him as righteousness and was used in saving him. We in brotherhood are

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receiving blessings from God in the form of material benefits, but we later on go and share

those blessings with unbelievers as a result, we become poor because we have given the

blessings of God to Satan. If we were to have one mind and one spirit, there would be no

cunningness, craftiness, and deceit. Once we regard ourselves as brothers and sisters we

would not exercise fear in relation to one another. Now when we embark on business, our

business decline because it is not managed by honest and sincere relatives.

In the event of your death, your inheritance will pass into the hands of your enemies.

In this situation, there is no security for your possessions. Therefore brethren, this is the

appointed time for God to be glorified and if we do not practice this gospel, God cannot be

glorified. In the case of Ananias, who had a double mind, when he sold all his possessions he

divided them into two and kept one part and gave the remainder to the Apostle. When Peter

asked him whether that was the total sum of money realized from the sale of his land,

Ananias replied, "Yes", Peter replied and asked him why has Satan deceived you into lying to the Holy Spirit? After this statement, Ananias fell down and died.

PARTNERSHIP IN EQUAL TERMS

If there is love amongst the brethren, they can enter into partnership one may

contribute $1000. These contributions belong to the two partners together. In the event of

wanting to purchase something to the value of $4000 both partners stand to gain from their

partnership because the one who had 1000 could not have bought the goods, nor the other

who had 3000 but as they have combined their resources. The commodity can be bought and

sold for $10,000. No one tree can stand by itself and form a forest. All the punishment,

suffering, and tribulation, that is facing the world is the refusal to practice the word of God.

The foundation that our Lord Jesus Christ laid is this oneness and one mind.

Brethren, I am not going to take you further than this because it is said that a stroke of

the Cain is sufficient unto a wise man. Let all those who have ears to hear, hear, May God

bless his holy words. Amen!

THANK YOU FATHER.

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WHOSOEVER COMMITTETH SIN IS THE SERVANT OF SIN.

Golden Text: John 8:34

Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, whosoever committeth sin is the servant

of sin.

Anybody who commits sin is bound to suffer. Even the least bit of sin is bound to bring

untold punishment and death, to any person who commits it. Do you then see why, we have

no peace, in our lives? You should not allow anybody to tempt you to fall. This is the reason

why, you should not find fault with anybody. There is no portion in the scriptures, which

says, you have the right to judge others or revenge. God is the maker of everything, and we

should leave everything to Him to do for us.

But when we sin, we are the cause of all our troubles, because God Himself does not

commit sin, and is therefore not responsible for anything we may suffer in consequence of

sin. The punishment we get by committing sin is from the sin not from God. All bad things,

bad dreams, quarrelling and discomfort come from sin. That is why, it is said: the wages of

sin is death. At the time Adam and Eve did not commit sin in the Garden of Eden, they never

lacked anything. They were never ill. They neither quarreled, nor fought, nor did they suffer

any disgrace. In fact, they were not worried in any way.

But from the day they committed sin, evil followed them, in everything, and in every

way. When we have known this, why are our hearts hardened, our eyes closed, and we still

remain in sin? Why do we allow our hands to touch or do evil? If anybody commits sin, all his

words, eyes, ears and anything within and about him, are turned evil? All disgrace, tears and

torments reach him because of sin. Bad thoughts come from sin. What is worst, about

committing any sin at all is the fact; one sin giveth birth to another. When we steal we are

punished; but it does not end there. We may wonder why, we who have not been stealing, are

doing so now. Have we forgotten, the knock we gave that little child on the head, which is

sinful enough to urge us on to commit another sin: stealing? This is a very strong reason why,

we should run away from every bit of sin.

EVERY SINNER IS DEAD

No sinner knows God. Those who know God, never commit any sin. If you like, give

them millions of naira to induce them to commit sin; you will never get them to do so. They

rather choose to die than to commit any bit of sin. Why? Because they know, to sin is to die. I

have told you, if a man is careful enough to avoid all manner of sin, he will not die forever.

He will not suffer from any disgrace or illness. But when you feel the slightest pain, trace the

cause, it will lead to sin. Any stain of sin, on the soul, is like a black spot, on a pure white: it 50

cannot be hidden. Likewise, if you commit the slightest sin, you need not inform God,

because He knows it all; and you will be disciplined, unfailingly.

Therefore, if any person says, he will commit sin, because God is merciful, and will

forgive him; he is making a great mistake. Such a person does not know God. He is a slave to

sin, and until he denounces sin, he will not be free to do any good thing, even to be able to ask

God for forgiveness.

THE SINLESS WILL NOT SUFFER DEATH

Sin is the cause of death. Adam and Eve died, because they committed sin. Christ is

living today, because He did not commit sin. If you do not commit sin, you will not die. A

person, who commits no sin, does not know any juju, witchcraft, mermaid, or hatred; he does

not want suffering, or death. But if you do anything God forbids in His Holy Scriptures, you

will die, because you have committed the sin of disobedience, which Adam and Eve

committed, and died.

From the day you commit sin, you have become a slave to sin, and sin will begin to rule

you. Let us all, who do not want to be slaves to sin, refrain from it. Even if you are to be

starved for a hundred years, suffer it, instead of being persuaded, to commit sin, and eat

sumptuously every day. Even if you are promised the whole world, if you would sin,

remember Satan made the same promise to Christ in the desert, but He refused all; because

all these would lead Him to death and make Him lose eternal life. Shun the devil, the world,

and all that is in it.

OUR FOREFATHERS PERISHED IN IGNORANCE

If our forefathers in ignorance did commit sin and perished, should we who claim to be

wise today, also commit the same sin, and perish like them. And if we willfully commit sin,

what excuse will bring us out, of the consequences of it. We are taught to avoid sin. This is the

best measure against death. Those of us, who are wise, know prevention is better than cure;

and the way to prevent death, is by refraining from sin. Where then lies the wisdom, of those

who say, they will commit sin and afterwards come back, to ask God for forgiveness? Once a

sin is committed, the consequences will be disastrous and death often follows.

ILLUSTRATION

Once there lived a certain king, with his queen, and three courtiers, who were eligible

to act for the king, should he be absent, and to succeed him, should he be dead. These

courtiers lusted after the person of the queen, and were jealous. Each of them wanted very

much, to have an affair with her, but because they discovered how faithful the queen was to

her king, they feared; they had failed, in their individual attempt of eliciting love from her.

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All three of them plotted to rape her or cause her death, should she resist or disgrace them by

refusing their approach. Their jealousy against the queen raged so fiercely, they started to

call her names, and to say the queen was disrespectful, looking down on every person.

Being courtiers, they were much trusted, loved by the people and allowed unlimited access to

the court. They used this advantage, to secure themselves a hiding place in the court, from

where they could pounce on the queen

THE PLOT

The queen was returning from bathing alone. Half way to the bathroom, her escort of

maids had stopped to wait for her, to go and come back to join them. But before they could

see their queen again, the three courtiers had jumped from their hiding, to grip her. Then

they demanded a love affair: "You know, we are courtiers, much honored in this kingdom,

and that we have equal power, with the king your husband, so, whatever we say must be

done, and whosoever refuses to do what we want, we have power to condemn to death?" "Yes, of course," she replied. "And now, we want you to love three of us, as you love the king, and to allow us, to have the same right, on your person, as the king; if you refuse, you will be killed."

The queen was maddened by what to her sounded the most treasonable thing ever

spoken by man. Boldly she told them, by having the thought to approach her, with such

ignoble questions they had already committed a great crime: a moral sin, and for opening

their mouths, to utter such dirty words, they were already dead. As for herself, should she

ever think in her heart of having an affair with anyone of them, she should die; and for her to

agree, to do so, when they demanded it, she should die. God forbid, she should not do any

such thing. The three courtiers were greatly disappointed and disgraced. They wanted

revenge. So, they raised an alarm, and summoned the whole court and the whole kingdom to

the palace. There they explained to the people, how they had caught the queen, having an

affair with another man, and when they came up to catch them, the man escaped. This was

noised throughout the land, and everybody knew the penalty for such a crime was death, and

that the queen, was soon, to die.

Many blamed her for such an act, which from the evidence of the courtiers; the people

believed she had committed, and were very sorry, she was to die such a disgraceful death. But

the three friends who plotted it were very happy. Yet the queen was not in any way ruffled.

Her heart did not condemn her, because she had committed no offense. According to the law

of the land, there was nothing remaining to prevent her execution. The courtiers were

trusted to say the truth in the evidence, which they gave against the queen, and no other

evidence was needed to disprove what they had said. Whatever the queen had to say to

defend herself was not to be listened to.

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THE EXECUTION

The execution of the queen was fixed at eight o'clock the next morning. So, the people

dispersed with the awful impression of what had happened. In the night one of the

prominent young men had a dream of the true nature of the case, for the queen.

The next morning when all assembled to watch her execution, the young man cried

out, he would not bear to see an innocent person executed before his eyes, and that he had

the other side of the "queen-caught-with-man" story to tell them. He was granted audience.

He called the nobles privately and asked them to separate the three courtiers, and then cross-

examined them, one by one, to know their individual versions of how they caught the queen,

with a man. The three of them were kept at distances that made it impossible for them to see

or hear one another. When they were called in and cross-examined one of them said, "I

caught the queen having an affair with a man, under the mango tree, and when we came

running to catch them the man escaped. He was taken aside still far away.

The second courtier who was called in said, he saw the queen and the man, under the pear

tree; the third courtier said, he saw them, under the coconut tree." There was no collaboration in the evidence given by the three friends, and this proved, they conspired to kill the queen.

They were guilty of high treason, and were condemned to die on the gallows. Before the death

sentence pronounced on them, the Queen was called to say how everything happened. She

told them a very pathetic story of how these courtiers had sought to have an affair with her,

and when she refused they turned to say they had caught her with a man.

THINGS CHANGED

Everything, the courtiers said, was false. Things changed automatically. The queen was

set free, while the three courtiers were hanged by the same rope, which was earlier prepared

for the queen.

Golden Text: John 8:34

Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, whosoever committeth sin is the servant

of sin.

In the above illustration, the queen, who committed no sin, could not in any way be

brought under punishment of sin. But the courtiers as sinners were serving sin from the day

they started to worry themselves, planning how to get the queen into their lustful trap. They

told lies, and suffered shame, and finally died for their sins. Therefore, let us run away from

sin, even the least type. In thought, word or deed we should not sin at all. For disgrace,

tribulation, and death await all sinners. Women ought not to suffer any pain, in delivering

children. Men ought not to suffer, for their daily bread, but today the sufferings are due to,

our own sins. If we commit no sin, we shall experience no difficulty in anything. So let us run

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away from sin, so that sin will run away from us, and we shall be free, and never again serve

under its bondage, forever and ever. Those who have ears to hear let them hear, may The Lord

bless the preaching of His Holy Word. Amen!

THANK YOU FATHER

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THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH.

Golden Text: Romans 6:23

For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

We have already started, and will continue to explain to you, what harm sin has done

to this world. If our forbearers long ago, and the philosophers of today, had known earlier,

sin is the cause of all the troubles in this world, death would have ceased entirely by now. For

sin is the cause of all our tribulations and death. The increasing death toll today is alarming,

and has set everybody thinking as to how to stop it. And here in our lesson today we have

been shown the cause of death, which should be removed, if death must stop. We must

therefore refrain from sin, for sin is the cause of death.

THE PROFIT

The only reward or profit, we derive from sin is death. Why then do the people of the

world cling to sin, or does it then mean, the world does not want life? If we quarrel, backbite,

steal, hate or fornicate, cause division, fight or curse, we must die. Why then should those

who desire life, do any of these things? We all have noted how our bodies and feelings react

to sin. Once you backbite somebody, your whole person is thrown, into a state of

confusion. In our conscience, we are no more free and happy, as we used to be, in the

company of the person, we backbite. All the sting and illness, we may suffer, are only minor

consequences, death is the final wage, we are paid for the sins, we commit. It is the sum set

aside for a sinner, to earn, as pension. When a sinner dies, God has no hand in his death, for

he has been paid his pension, by sin. God is eternal life; sin is death.

SUFFERINGS

Sinners suffer terrible things, in the course of sinning. For instance, a thief cannot tell

how often, he has been attacked, stoned and buffeted; or has escaped from death, and his

ordeals, under rain and sun. If we consider these things, we need not be told, to run away,

from sin. Apart from sin, there is no person or angel, who has the right, to destroy the life of

any person. If anybody dies, and if you investigate the cause, you will discover it is sin. If you see anybody, who has eternal life, it is given him, by God.

WHY WONDER

People wonder why, this or that prominent person should die. I ask: "Has he not

committed sin, and thus deserve to die?" We keep on explaining this thing to you, because

some think, God is responsible for illness and death. Some say, death has power. No, it is sin

not death that has power. God knows sin has power to punish sinners, with death.

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He does not obstruct anybody, who after being told to refrain from sin, still continues

in it. He knows every sinner will earn death as his reward.

ILLUSTRATION

Once there was a synod, attended only by very high dignitaries, from the rank of a

bishop and above, from all over the land; the number of them being above two thousand. At

the end of their deliberations, one of the bishops was to serve up Holy Communion. He

prepared and brought it out, but when he was going to start serving, thunder struck. The

table was overturned, the bread scattered, and the wine was spilled all over the floor. The

bishop himself was killed. All these things happened, because the bishop, who died, had

secretly poisoned the food, when he was preparing it. His plan to kill all the bishops present,

at the synod, was a direct attack on God Himself. He had committed a grievous sin, and the

wages he received was his own death.

CONFESSION

Before he died, he confessed the many acts of cruelty, he used to commit, and expressly

told the people, the death he would suffer was what wages, he deservedly earned, for all the

atrocities, he was committing, in his life. This story also illustrates, Satan is not afraid of God, and does not scruple to tempt the Children of God, in the house of God, disguising himself as

an angel of God, but whatever form the sinner may take, his end is death.

Golden Text: Romans 6:23

For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

So brethren, let us refrain from sin, if we desire to have eternal life, as the gift of God, and

gain victory over death, now and forever more. Those who have ears to hear let them hear.

May God Bless His Holy Words. Amen.

THANK YOU FATHER

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BAPTISM: CRITERION FOR SALVATION

First Bible Lesson: Mark 16:16

He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.

Second Bible Lesson: Acts 2:38-39

Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in The Name of Jesus

Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of The Holy Ghost. For the

promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the

Lord our God shall call.

Golden Text: John 3:5

Jesus answered, "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born of water and of the

spirit, he cannot enter into The Kingdom of God.

FIRST AND SECOND BAPTISM

Brethren, the texts above have summarized this sermon. You have been reading these

portions for years, yet you could not understand what they meant. This sermon is meant to

reveal to you that those who practice the injunctions of God must be saved. It is also meant to reveal those who are qualified for The Kingdom of God.

There are two major things needed in The Kingdom. The first is to repent and refrain

from all manner of sins, and the second is baptism by immersion in water. This will qualify

you for forgiveness and remission of your sins by God. We have two types of baptism in

Brotherhood of the Cross and Star; via, Baptism for forgiveness of sins, and that of The

Holy Spirit. If you undertake one and fail to take the other, it avails you nothing. If you had committed any sin, no matter how grievous that sin was, once you are baptized into

Brotherhood, you are washed clean. Since you have repented and refrained from your sins,

our Lord Jesus Christ and The Father will forgive all your sins. That is the first baptism. The

second baptism is that of The Holy Spirit. If God bestows you with the gift of The Holy Spirit,

your heart will be pure. Consequently, there will be no judgment against you anymore. You

will be completely free from all problems.

If you are bestowed with the gift of The Holy Spirit, yet your sins are not forgiven due

to the fact that you are not baptized, you are not saved. If you have received the baptism of

The Holy Spirit but do not accept that of immersion in water, there is no salvation for you. On

the other hand, if you receive baptism of immersion in water but do not receive that of The

Holy Spirit, you are not saved.

Though you may have received several baptisms from all corners of the world, if you

fail to receive that of Brotherhood of the Cross and Star, your sins will not be remitted.

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It indicates that you are not saved. This is because this baptism is preceded by repentance.

This is the judgment.

Whoever knows that he/she is a sinner, such a person has to go to Christ by repenting

and refraining from those sins and then, get baptized. Apart from this, there is no salvation

for him or her. Salvation eludes so many people who refuse to be baptized into Brotherhood

of the Cross and Star having been baptized in their previous denominations. They do not

know that any baptism without a proper confession of sins is no baptism. Let it be known

that whoever baptizes with all his sin with him is not a baptized member of any church; and

in such a case, he cannot be saved.

However, if after receiving the aforementioned you still believe in and continue to

prepare diabolical substances, go on marrying so many wives and in fact, indulge in any sin,

it means that what you had received was not the baptism of our Lord Jesus Christ. Our Lord

Jesus Christ said that whosoever, "believeth and is baptized is saved". He, however, did not add that, after the baptism whoever goes back to his sinful ways shall be saved. If you realize

that you are a sinner and repent of your sins and accept this baptism, it means you have died

and resurrected with our Lord Jesus Christ. Through this way, all your sins are forgiven.

These two types of baptism are necessary because through them, the true children of God

which are scattered all over the world can easily be identified.

It should be noted that not all the inhabitants of the world are bestowed with the gift of

The Holy Spirit. The Second Lesson reveals that you should repent and be baptized so that you

may receive The Holy Spirit. This promise is for you, your children and your great

grandchildren. All those who do not possess the gift of The Holy Spirit, are not His true

children. Though you may be baptized (by immersion in water) and your sins forgiven, if you

do not receive the gift of The Holy Spirit, it means you are not His true follower. This is why

you cannot sing, preach or heal. This indicates that The Father has not elected you for His

glory. Do not blame any person who has received baptism, but, does not receive The Holy

Spirit, for he has not yet been chosen. Such a person can neither surrender himself to God

nor believe that God is the one doing the work in Brotherhood of the Cross and Star.

Whenever such people receive the gift of The Holy Spirit, they will believe fervently.

That is why we have these two types of baptisms. You can now understand why the

Golden Text emphasizes on the point that one must be born of water and spirit otherwise he

cannot enter into The Kingdom of God. If your sins are not forgiven, and you have not

received The Holy Spirit, then you are not worthy of this Kingdom. If you leave any sin

unconfessed, you cannot receive The Holy Spirit. Do not forget that the confession, baptism

and reception of The Holy Spirit constitute the first death and resurrection. Revelation 2:11

states that. He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death. Therefore, it is

mandatory that you confess all your sins before baptism.

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If you did not die with our Lord Jesus Christ, you will not resurrect with Him. On the other

hand, all those who participated in the first death shall not "taste" of the second death.

THE ESSENCE OF CONFESSION OF SIN

Whosoever does not believe in the truth cannot be saved. Believing connotes refraining

from former vices and involvements in vices. When this is done you are free. Also, once you

receive the two baptisms as practiced in Brotherhood of the Cross and Star, you live a

problem free life, because you are one with The Father. In fact, you will become a new person

in our Lord Jesus Christ.

A lot of people who claim to be churchgoers are still plagued with various illnesses. The

reason is that, they were baptized with their sins in them; which tantamount to no baptism.

As it was earlier said, there is no meaningful baptism that could be effective when a person

has not denounced his cults and all the vices he or she had been practicing. It is not

confession of sins alone that matters. The crux of the exercise is repenting and refraining

from sins. Take the case of a man from Eniong who came to this place, for instance. When the

book, " First Step to God" was given to him, after going through it, he left with the excuse that he had to complete his rounds of medication in the hospital first. Meanwhile, this man was

receiving treatment in the hospital, but the sermon in that book abhors that. And for that

reason, he fled and till now, he had not returned. He did not realize that if he had confessed

his sins and got baptized, his sickness and problems would have been over. If baptism were to

be of no importance, our Lord Jesus Christ could not have requested John the Baptist to get

Him baptized.

Read Matthew 3:13-15:

Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him. But John forbade

him, saying, I have need to be baptized of Thee, and comest Thou to me? And Jesus answering

said unto him, suffers it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfill all righteousness. Then he suffered Him.

Our Lord Jesus Christ was baptized at the age of 30 (thirty) in the month of

August. That was the day He died the first death, and for that reason, the second death had no

dominion over Him; and so He resurrected. That is what is applicable to all the children of

God. Death has no power over them. What you call death is no death but a spiritual

transfer. The first death is that day you repent and completely refrain from all sins and get

baptized. When you are baptized (by immersion) and do not go back to your former vices, but

surrender yourself to the service of God, you cannot die anymore. This is because; you have

no more association with the agents of death. What are the agents of death? They are

fornication, lies, stealing, murdering, backbiting and many other vices.

All those who are still lustful of the world and the fullness thereof, in spite of their

baptism, shall be damned. Our Lord Jesus Christ, for instance, was a qualified carpenter from

His youthful age to the age of thirty.

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All along, He was doing the carpentry work, but after His baptism, He received The

Holy Spirit without measure; and since then, He did not go back to carpentry. He continued

with The Work of God having surrendered Himself fully to God. Up till this moment, He has

been in active service without slumbering. This is the model for all believers.

You may recall that when our Lord Jesus Christ was not baptized, He was not tempted

by Satan. Immediately after His baptism, He was taken to the Wilderness where He fasted

forty days and nights. There and then Satan tempted Him. (Read Matt 4:1-10). It should be

noted that our Lord Jesus Christ could not succumb to these temptations because He was led

by The Holy Spirit. Note very importantly that this Holy Spirit was bestowed upon Him just

after His baptism. Therefore, when Satan departed from Him, He was ministered unto by the

angels. (Matt 4:11). Similarly, all those who had decided to forsake all forms of sins and get baptized shall also be ministered unto by the angels. On the other hand, those who have

refused to forsake all forms of sins and get baptized shall be damned.

Henceforth, before any person is baptized, he must read this sermon and be prepared

to refrain from all vices and evil practices which are not in consonance with the tenets of

Brotherhood of the Cross and Star.

If this is not done, your baptism should be regarded as an ordinary bath in the water.

However, if you hearken to this teaching, you will be free from all bondage of sin and

Satanism. You will then become the real Child of God. Romans 6:2 asks: How shall we, that

are dead to sin, live any longer therein? Our Lord Jesus Christ died once and thereafter He lives. Those who are dead and can never resurrect are those who have never been

baptized. The root of death without resurrection can be traced to the wrong preaching given

to new converts - that once they are baptized, all their problems are gone. They are not told to

repent and refrain from sins.

These new converts therefore, go in for baptism as though they are going to the

hospital or to the necromancer. Whosoever knows and confesses his or her sins, repents and

is baptized, is saved. This is because his sins, having been forgiven on earth, are forgiven also

in heaven. Whether you are a royal highness, king, queen, pope, archbishop, millionaire,

billionaire, general or field marshal in the armed forces, you have to abide by His Teachings.

Apart from this, you have yourself to blame.

DENOUNCE YOUR OLD WAYS BEFORE BAPTISM

The two baptisms - Repentance and Holy Spirit - are very important. If you undergo these two

types of baptisms, you will have nothing to do with anger, fighting, bearing malice or

anything that will cause discrimination, discomfort and segregation. This is why some people

say that they are baptized into Brotherhood of the Cross and Star, yet they can neither pray,

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preach nor practice any sermon. In addition to baptism of repentance, if you had received the

baptism of The Holy Spirit, you will not gossip, backbite, tell lies, indulge in idolatry, commit

adultery, smoke tobacco and take all types of drugs. Do not ask any person to rush for

baptism so that his sickness, court case or other problems may be cast away. Let the person

confess all his or her sins; repent and refrain from such sins, then receive baptism.

Thereafter such a person is washed clean and free from all judgment in heaven and on earth.

If you know you have committed too many sins and cannot bear the burden of them

any longer, take refuge in our Lord Jesus Christ. This could only be done through repentance,

refraining from, and abhorring sins. After this, you will have to accept baptism as

administered in Brotherhood of the Cross and Star.

No prayer or fasting can save you without the above stated method. This is confirmed

by the words of our Lord Jesus Christ as recorded in Matt 11:28: Come unto Me, all ye that

labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Most people in various denominations

baptize converts with the least opportunity. This should not be so. In Brotherhood of the Cross

and Star, for instance, I did not baptize any person from 1956 to 1957. It was just a month to our departure to 26 Mbukpa that I started baptizing people. This was because, I did not want

to baptize just anybody, that is, those who do not believe in our Lord Jesus Christ.

The first set of converts were baptized between the end of July, 1958 and August of

the same year. On this note, therefore, no baptism should be administered to any person

who has not believed in God, and does not know what is sin and cannot accept having

ever committed any. Before 1958, all the people who came for prayers and to attend services, had to denounce their various churches, cults, secret societies, and other sources of power

they believed in. How then could I have baptized such people?

It was at 26 Mbukpa Road, Calabar that some people started discarding their rings,

bangles, charms, and amulets. If God did not apply His Great Wisdom, He would not have had

any follower on earth. At that time, I could not place my hands on people's head for any

reason if he could not confess all his sins. If he had begrudged any person, he had to go first

to make peace before I could pray for him. At that time, whoever did not denounce his

charms and cults, I did not pray for such a fellow.

THE GIFT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

The spirit, blood and water move and work in unison. (1 John 5:8). Most people in the

prison yard and those in different precarious situations are being disturbed by The Holy

Spirit. If The Holy Spirit is in you, you will be punished for any sin you commit; and if you

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continue in sin, your end is death. In this wise therefore, once a sick person confesses all his

sins truly and repents wholeheartedly, all his sicknesses will vanish completely.

Many people are plagued with various problems. The cause of their mishaps could be

traced to the fact that they are not baptized. This fact could be confirmed in Acts 2:38 where Peter advised the men of Judea during Pentecost to "repent and be baptized every one of you

in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of The Holy

Ghost". Similarly any person who does not possess The Holy Spirit must be baptized. So that

he may receive it. The churches do not possess The Holy Spirit yet they claim to be God's

children who are serving Him. How can you be a child of God or serve Him without The Holy

Spirit? Those who must serve God satisfactorily must serve Him in Spirit and Truth (John

4:23).

Most people say they do not want a spiritual church, but they crave for the "real

church" or what they call orthodox churches. Consequently, you can see their failure and

perdition and how they die daily. As you go about praying for people and giving them money

and other gifts, can such things save them? Though you may buy a car, a house or other

things for a person or even train him in the university, he cannot receive salvation unless he

confesses, repents and be baptized as is done in Brotherhood. Someone may pray for another

and all his sickness, poverty and his hardship vanish; but if he does not possess The Holy

Spirit, he is not saved.

It was for this reason that our Lord Jesus commissioned His disciples to "go ye

therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in The Name of The Father, and of The Son,

and of The Holy Ghost...." (Matt 28:19). Therefore, anyone who realizes his or her sins and repents and gets baptized is saved and will be free from any judgment. On the other hand, he

that feels he or she has no cause for repentance and subsequent baptism is condemned and

nothing can save him. If he likes, he may distribute all his wealth to the poor and be

charitable to all. At the end, he must perish because he believes not in God.

The gateway to this Kingdom is by confession, repenting and refraining from all

sins, and then baptism (by immersion). As you emerge from the water, you have received

The Holy Spirit. If anybody had not confessed, repented and refrained from all his former

vices and evil ways, do not baptize him. If you do, it will be of no use, because the new spirit

will be at war with his "customers" (sins). He therefore, will not stand fast in faith to God.

From today, if any person desires to be baptized, ask him or her to confess about all his cults,

secret societies, different sources of power and wealth. In other words, all his sins must be

confessed before you baptize him. Any person who does not accept that he is a sinner, do not

baptize him. On the contrary, all those who realize their sinfulness and seek for baptism

should be baptized. Do not beg or plead with any person to accept baptism. The First Lesson

below emphasizes this point.

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First Bible Lesson: Mark 16:16

He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.

THE HOLY SPIRIT IS OBTAINED THROUGH BAPTISM

Our Lord Jesus Christ died because of our sins. If you realized that you are a sinner and

believe in the fact that confession, repentance, refraining from all your sins and then

baptism (by immersion) is the only way to Him, He will never disappoint you. For those who

claim to have been baptized somewhere and that one does not baptize twice, leave them alone

for judgment shall be against them. When you read in the Bible that children of God will

judge the world this is that judgment.

Read 1 Corinthians 6:1-5. "Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints? Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the

world? And if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest

matters? Know ye not that we shall judge angels? How much more things that pertain to this

life? If then ye have judgments pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least

esteemed in the church. I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among

you? No, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?"

The baptism of John the Baptist signified repentance; so that people may believe in our

Lord Jesus Christ. This baptism was also for the remittance of sins. Did you know that this is

judgment, and that any person who has no cause for repentance and baptism is condemned?

It is said, that "they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and

lusts". (Gal 5:24). This can only be achieved through confession, repentance and finally, baptism. When once you are dipped into the water, all your charms, juju, evil desires and lust,

die completely. Nothing rules over you apart from The Holy Spirit.

When the churches fast, they do it between 6 am and 8 am actively. Beyond 9 am and

10 am many will fume. By 12 noon, food is kept all round so that they will eat and live. They

cannot fast effectively for long because they have not crucified the flesh. They therefore, had

not received The Holy Spirit which could have empowered them to fast. The entire world is

still in the flesh. Whenever The Holy Spirit has taken dominion in your body, no power can

either threaten or push you about. When any power or force hits at you, it breaks and cannot

penetrate, for a local axiom has it that, "two cocks cannot crow on the same roof". Similarly The Holy Spirit and elementary (evil) spirits cannot stay in the same temple. That is why

people change from bad to good and good to better and finally to best when they baptize and

keep to the tenets of Brotherhood as taught by The Supernatural Teacher.

All the powers and forces in the entire universe put together, cannot remove any child

of God from Brotherhood. Brotherhood of the Cross and Star is an unshakable Kingdom. The

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moment you are baptized, you become one solid being having been possessed by The Holy

Spirit. It is The Holy Spirit alone that controls your actions and operations. From the day you

accept Him, all your problems are gone and there is no judgment for you. Do not be afraid of

either death or any power. When people say that a Brotherhood member is poisoned,

charmed or shot with a gun, I normally conclude that such a person is not a true member of

this fold.

A Brotherhood member cannot be killed by any weapon, whether spiritual, physical

or otherwise. He is above destruction. Remember the promise of our Master and Lord Jesus

Christ that those who believe and be baptized shall not be hurt by anything whatsoever.

(Mark 16:16-18). If you know that you are not really baptized, go immediately for baptism so that you may no longer be in tears. It is out of mercy that The Holy Spirit is changing the

entire humanity from evil to good. He who does not experience this transformation cannot

know the difference between good and bad. This is because, under the influence of evil

spirits, murder is not a sin, likewise charms and amulets. Those who indulge in these things

believe that it is a way of protecting oneself. However, let it be known that there is no

salvation in any other place in the entire universe.

You have read that we were shaped in iniquity and in sin did our mothers conceive

us (Psalm 51:5). Consequently, from the first man, Adam, till now, we have all sinned and

have fallen short of this Kingdom. God, The Merciful Father knows this and so He opened the

only available channel. This channel is this baptism in which the procedure has earlier been

explained. He who continues to pray for money and wealth should stop seeking for such

things, but for his salvation. Neither government, your parents nor other powers or persons

can help you. You cannot help yourself either, because we have all been clothed with sins.

Only our Lord Jesus Christ can help us through the above stated method.

Forgo everything you know that will not give glory to God, so that you may be able to

please Him. God does not want anyone to perish that is why He has opened this way unto the

entire world. No other baptism can forgive and remit your sins. You can be a worshipper in

any church denomination, but first come here and be baptized in the proper way; so that

your sins will be forgiven and remitted. Only The Almighty God can forgive the sins of any

man or human being. Brotherhood of the Cross and Star is The Real Kingdom of God,

where The Father, Son and The Holy Spirit (The Trinity God) dwell.

No angels can forgive or remit your sin. If the almighty God forgives your sins, no other

person can judge you again, and you will be free forever. This is not because of your good

qualities but through his grace.

Formerly, when I tell members of Brotherhood of the Cross and Star that they were

with The Holy Father, they had always been left with some doubts. They doubted the

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possibility of any person staying with The Holy Being. However, today the scales have fallen

out of their eyes and they have seen the truth of the issue. The songs rendered here and all

the wonderful testimonies you give in this place are not heard in any other organizations.

The sins you have refrained from, are those, which the world enjoys most. The type of life you

live, people outside may regard you as a fool, for not leaving Brotherhood to work for money

and other mundane wealth. Little do they know that here, you have seen what the world has

never seen; and that where you are is The Kingdom of God. You cannot be snatched out by

anybody.

As a member of Brotherhood, you have "put on" Christ, though the world accuses you

for worshipping a man. They also say that you have been given something which protects you

wherever you may be. This is true. You have been given what is not in the world, because you

have been freed from judgment. Consequently, our Lord Jesus Christ had taken dominion in

your body, and so, you are defeating all powers of death, poverty, sickness or lamentation. If

any person prepares charm or diabolical substances so as to harm you, he or she is wasting

his/her time. Whatsoever they do against you, instead of harming you, will return to them as

a boomerang. That is the cause of all the sufferings amongst them. Anybody that gets

baptized and receives The Holy Spirit, his/her eyes will be opened and he/she will realize his

former folly.

For you to administer holy oil or water, prayers and visions to someone who neither

believes nor baptizes is a futile effort. He or she cannot be saved. There is not much time left to be wasted. Help yourself now, for the time is short. Members of Brotherhood have cause

to rejoice immensely with The Father for giving them such a Kingdom and glory, which

cannot be shaken when they did not even believe in it. Consequently, there is no sighing,

crying, tribulation, suffering and lamentation for them anymore. All adverse conditions

have been removed from them.

When it is said that the kingdom of the world has become that of God and His

Christ, (Rev 11:15), you are the ones being referred to. Formerly you were idol-worshippers but today, you are a Brotherhood member enjoying the full protection of The Almighty God.

This is because from the very day you believed and got baptized, you had received The Holy

Spirit. Therefore, the Kingdom of this world has become that of The Almighty God and His

Christ. A true child of God in Brotherhood of the Cross and Star serves God 24 hours without

any complaint. Those of the world cannot stay awake one night without complaint. It is said:

"fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear Him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell". (Matt 10:28). Today, all members of Brotherhood are free from the above warning because they are not under any law. Nothing

can kill you anymore. It is very pathetic to see a Brotherhood member going to a

necromancer, juju doctor, or taking any form of medication. This is because Christ, having

taken possession of you, no other power works in you.

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If you are involved in any diabolical practices against any person, it cannot be

effective. It should be known that, you are not what you think you are. All Brotherhood

members are not just human beings, they are "Spirit". It is this "Spirit" that does all things. You are only witnesses to The Work of The Holy Spirit. Any person, who points an

accusing finger at you, does so to Our Lord Jesus Christ. To prove this, if you go back to eat the former food which you discarded, you will not be comfortable. Thus, the choice of food to be

taken is the entire prerogative of The Holy Spirit indwelling you. But rest assured that you

are in The New World and in The Kingdom of God. You are therefore, free to go about

preaching, singing and testifying about it. Read the Second Bible Lesson again.

Second Bible Lesson: Acts 2:38-39

Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized, every one of you in The Name of Jesus

Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of The Holy Ghost. For the

promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as The Lord our God shall call.

THE NEED FOR REPENTANCE

The above lesson is applicable to Brotherhood of the Cross and Star. As stated

earlier, the baptism of John was for repentance, while that of Brotherhood is for

forgiveness and remittance of sins. I thank God for the baptism of John the Baptist, because it brought man to the knowledge of The True God. Through his baptism, people believed in

our Lord Jesus Christ. After the Baptism of remittance of sins, The Holy Spirit is given to such

a believer. In fact, this promise has been made manifest in the children of Brotherhood.

Whoever baptizes you, be he a child or an adult as long as he is a baptized Brotherhood,

your sins are remitted. However, if the baptism is administered by any other person who is

not in Brotherhood of the Cross and Star, it changes to that of repentance. Every other

baptism in the world is undertaken for repentance; so that those who accept such baptism

may believe in Brotherhood of the Cross and Star as the New Kingdom of God.

Simon Peter was baptized seven times before he met our Lord Jesus Christ. If he had

not received the baptism of John, he would not have known our Lord Jesus Christ. After the

era of our Lord Jesus Christ, I have not seen or heard of anybody who truly baptized people

for the remission of his/her sins. Every person seems to be baptized so that their problems

may vanish. Henceforth, let it be known that if you force someone, by much persuasion to be

baptized, it means that you are the one who had accepted the baptism and not him/her. The

best thing to do is to preach The Word of God to someone. When the person listens, and by

what he hears, asks how he/she can be saved, you then have the chance to inform him to

confess, repent and refrain from all sins; then he will be baptized. Let him know that after

the baptism, he will receive The Holy Spirit. Consequently, if he believes and accepts baptism,

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he is saved. Somebody who is entangled in so many secret societies and cults, and who is

deeply involved in traditional medicine and occultism may become bored about his situation.

If he comes to you to know what he may do to be saved, you can tell him that, unless he

forgoes all those former entanglements, repents and baptizes, he cannot receive salvation. If

he believes and baptizes, his sins will be remitted and he will be saved.

A Brotherhood member is not expected to sue somebody no matter the offense. He is

not supposed to kill. He must not be a liar, fornicator, adulterer, idolater or quarrelsome. A

Brotherhood member must not be an immoral person or laden with iniquities. In those days,

if you have a case pending in the court, you will not be prayed for or baptized unless you have

withdrawn the case from the court. One woman who has a land case with her brother came to

me then and I told her to forgo the land for him but she vowed that she cannot do that: and so

was not baptized. She had since been transferred to the world beyond. Many other people

perish in the same way. A Brotherhood member does not take any part of medication;

neither does he administer such to other people. He must not initiate into any tradition or custom of the world. He must not count or impute sins on others and should not bear malice.

Brotherhood is the new heaven and the new earth where righteousness reigns. (2 Peter

3:13). There are two things our Lord Jesus Christ holds and is ready to give free to whosoever merits them. If any person confesses his sins, He will first wash the person clean and also

give him The Holy Spirit. Take note of the fact that people from all races have committed

various and numerous sins. Read Romans 3:9-10.

"What then? Are we better than they? No, in no wise; for we have before proved both

Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin; As it is written, there is none righteous, no, not one." (Rom 3:10). However, Brotherhood of the Cross and Star had been established so that these sins maybe remitted.

Brotherhood is love, peace and goodness. The forgiveness and remittance does not

stop the sins of this generation. It covers the sins of different generations such as those

committed in the era of Adam, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Melchizedec among others, and other

generations yet unborn.

Do not direct any person to Calabar, Biakpan, or give any person holy oil or water.

Rather, when they ask how they could gain salvation, tell them to confess all their sins,

repent and refrain from such sins, and then receive baptism. This is the only sure way to

salvation. Do not hearken to those who are out to deceive you; that they will give you "spirit"

at the bank of the water, in the forest, hills or mountains. Come to Brotherhood of the Cross

and Star and receive The Holy Spirit free. The spirits you receive in any other place are

elemental which later turn to destroy you.

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A lot of people have problems in this Kingdom because they have refused to forsake

their former cults and secret societies. This group of people could be likened unto a man that

sent away his old wife to marry a new one. After a short while, he rented a house outside the

matrimonial home for the old wife. He secretly goes to the old wife; sleeps and eats with her.

Gradually, the old one draws nearer until she comes back to the home. Immediately she

enters the home again, trouble sparks and the entire family becomes disorganized. This is

how some members of Brotherhood go back to their former societies, which they had earlier

abandoned. One of our brothers from Trinidad who said he was a member of 36 secret

societies for instance had gone back to them. Such people are bound to have problems; for

"no man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment. (Matt 9:16-17)

The memorandum of Brotherhood of the Cross and Star makes it clear that a

Brotherhood member has no association with the world. Similarly, The Holy Spirit has

nothing to do with weeping, lamentation, fornication, murder, wars, and all manners of

sin. The Holy Spirit brought peace because He is The King of Peace. He also brought joy

and everlasting life to mankind. Any Brotherhood member who does not possess The Holy

Spirit is an unbeliever. Such members are faithless. Faith cometh by hearing The Words of

God. Give the people The Words of God and they will ask you what to do in order to attain

salvation. That was what happened to the Ethiopian Eunuch. Read Acts 8:26-38. Immediately

he was baptized, all of Eunuch's sins were forgiven and he received The Holy Spirit.

Accordingly, whoever rejects baptism, his sins will ever be on him in this generation and the

one to come.

This is the last chance given to all children of God to practice love, humility,

charity, patience and all virtues of Godliness. Our Lord Jesus Christ said, "If ye love me, keep my commandments. And I will pray The Father, and He shall give you another

Comforter, that He may abide with you forever. Even The Spirit of Truth whom the world

cannot receive, because it seeth Him not, neither knoweth Him: but you know Him; for He

dwelleth with you, and shall be in you." (John 14:15-17). Accordingly, The Holy Spirit is The One doing all the great works in Brotherhood of the Cross and Star. Formerly, the world

claimed that Brotherhood's leadership is satanic. Now, they have seen love, righteousness,

peace, patience, meekness, joy and holiness in the Leader Himself. Their eyes are now opened.

This is because if Satan can have true love, righteousness, holiness and all virtues of

Godliness, then it ceases to be Satan but God. Read the Golden Text again.

Golden Text: John 3:5

Jesus answered, "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born of water and of the

spirit, he cannot enter into The Kingdom of God."

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THE NECESSITY OF A SPIRITUAL REBIRTH

In order to gain entry into The Kingdom of God, you must crucify the body and its

lusts; for you cannot serve God and Satan at the same time. You must forsake all sins, repent

and be baptized; then you become a newborn child in the Spirit. The children of the world

cannot do any good because they will be directed by one mind to do good and the other takes

the opposite stand. They end up doing the wrong thing which is evil. On the contrary,

Brotherhood of the Cross and Star members believe in good deeds. There is peace, love,

meekness, righteousness, joy and all Godly virtues expressed by only one individual. That is

why they usually comment that all Brotherhood have one voice. Our Lord Jesus Christ has

fulfilled His promise as stated in John chapter 14 verses 15-16. That Comforter is now

with us. We therefore have nothing to worry about. We all live unto God and not the world.

We have nothing in common with the world. What we do is help the world, just to fulfill the

principles of love, which is in us.

The Holy Spirit has already revealed that any person who has any type of charms or

diabolical substances should throw them away. Do not keep any such things in your

house. The Holy Spirit is the force that is doing all things in this Kingdom. May God bless His Holy Words. Amen.

THANK YOU FATHER

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NEITHER RACE NOR SKIN COLOR QUALIFIES ONE FOR THE

KINGDOM OF GOD

I sincerely request you to pay attention to this Gospel today. It is a very short gospel,

but it is of great importance because it reveals the grace and the benevolence of God to the

entire humanity. This Gospel shall serve as a warning to those who still discriminate or

segregate, saying we are from Nigeria, Africa, Europe, America, Asia etc. This Gospel will be

spread all over the world throughout all the radios and print media. This Gospel reveals that

God is no respecter of person’s nations or organizations. It is only those who do His Will and

Purpose that He knows.

That is why you are mandated to go and spread this Gospel to all the nations of the

world because the children of God are found all over the world. Some of them are in India,

Europe, America, Africa and everywhere. And of a truth, it is only those who carry out the

injunctions of God who are His children. This is not a matter of men, women or children,

neither is it of Black man, White man or the Colored people. There is no color in this

Kingdom. The Kingdom is only for those who perform The Will of God. And it is only those

who do His Will who shall be admitted into this Kingdom.

It is written that heaven and earth shall pass away but God's Word shall not pass away.

You have even begun to see its consummation. People from all parts of the world including

America, India, Europe, Africa, come to occupy their positions in The Kingdom of God. If you

have got the necessary qualifications which is righteousness then your admission is

automatic no matter your race or country, be it France, or Africa, you are still subject to God's

scrutiny. He does not look at your relations; and so do not be misled by the misconception

that this or that person is your brother or sister, but God does not practice nepotism. If you

want to use other values and considerations do, but in this Kingdom, it is justice and fair

play, which reigns. Therefore nobody should ever imagine that merit or righteousness, which

are the necessary qualifications, would even be compromised. Consequently, only those who

practice The Word shall be saved.

You should forget about the church you have founded or the Bethel or cathedral, which

you may have erected, if you don't do God's Will, all are in vain. Forget about all the things

you have donated or committed to the services of God, for if you don't do His Will, you shall

not enter The Kingdom. For Our Lord Jesus Christ said that this Kingdom shall be taken away

from you, and given to the nations, which shall bear good fruits. There you should realize

that this Kingdom does not belong to Nigeria, Africa, the Eastern world, or the Western world

but it belongs to everyone who practices righteousness. It is very important for those who are

really seeking The Kingdom to readjust their thinking. Therefore those who had come here

for fun, or commerce should re-order their priorities in respect of this New Kingdom.

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No matter how much money you have, your riches or affluence cannot help you to

enter this kingdom. Your education, position or power cannot enable you to enter this

Kingdom either. Even if you are so great that you can cause the day to become night and vice

versa, you will not enter. Why did the Greeks not enter with all the wisdom and knowledge

they exhibited? Why did the Israelites not enter, and yet they claim to own the kingdom?

Why did all the other people not enter, through all of their fasting and prayers? Why did the

Orthodox Christian and the Muslims not enter? And similarly, if you don't do The Will of God,

you will not enter. It is senseless for anyone to go about boasting that he will not leave his

church, be it Roman Catholic, Presbyterian etc., simply because he either founded such a

church, or that it is the church of his ancestors. This is the time for you to practice love,

patience, humility, meekness, mercy, righteousness, joy and peace, because these are the

virtues, which would admit you into this Kingdom of God.

For anyone to glory in the fact that this Kingdom originates from Africa, Nigeria, or is

from the Black race is futile. The Kingdom could be taken away and given to any nation,

which bears those fruits of righteousness, which are needed for entry into it. God has to be

born as a human being since He created man in His image and likeness. He cannot be a tree

stone neither can He originate from the air, sea. Therefore the fact of His place, or family, of

negativity does not qualify anyone for The Kingdom of God. Neither does the fact that He has

revealed himself to you automatically entitle you to His kingdom.

In the worldly scheme of things, you can receive favor because you come from a

certain family, village or community, or when you have blood relation with some people, but

this is not practiced in The kingdom of God. That is why The Kingdom could be taken away

from you at any moment you derail from the path of righteousness and be given to those who

are qualified. I have been telling you that this Hall shall be filled to capacity with the Whites, Blacks the Colored people all coming from various parts of the world. Do not be surprised

with what you have witnessed. This is just the beginning.

As a matter of fact, love does not segregate. Love does not backbite, love does not puff

up. What you are witnessing now is the consummation of The Prophecy of God, which has

said that people shall come from the north, south, east and west to receive this Kingdom.

Whether it is a small child, an elderly person, a man or a woman, whoever does The Will of

God shall have his share in this Kingdom. I want this Gospel to be given to all brethren who

have just arrived from abroad and to every other person who is lucky to be there. My concern

is not for Great Britain, America, India, Russia, Africa etc., nor for the Whites, Blacks or

Colored people. My concern is for all those who practice The Word0, and do The Will of God.

That is why I often tell you that you do not know or understand where you are.

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If you had known where you are, you would have put into practicing the injunction of

‘love one another’, which you are being taught every day. This is because wherever and

whenever you practice this love, it gives you direct entry into The Kkingdom. There is one

spiritual song in Igbo vernacular which says that whoever has no backing, once he practices

the injunctions given by Leader Olumba Olumba Obu, Olumba will become his backing. So

whether you have no father, mother, wife, husband or children, all you need to do is to

practice The Word of God, and Leader Olumba Olumba Obu will be everything to you. This

Kingdom is not for the rich, the millionaire's, billionaires, the engineers, and lawyers,

professors, etc. It is not meant for Nigerians, Africans, Europeans or Asians. It is only for

those who practice The Word of God. This Gospel is for all the fellowships everywhere, so as to

put a stop to all the witch-hunting and intrigue. It will claim and solve difficult situations in

the affairs of our lives, in our families and society.

As the political activities and elections are due in Nigeria in 1992, this Gospel will give

enough warning; so be careful in whatever thing you do. We should spend much more energy

and time in the service of this Kingdom then we should do away with the mundane things of

this world. Let our Second Lesson be read and please be attentive.

SECOND BIBLE LESSON: MATTHEW 21:43

Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you and given to a nation

bringing forth the fruits thereof.

Brethren, is that a parable or vision? This is The Word of God; this is what shall come to

pass, and this too is what had come to pass. God did fix a new day; and He warned the

Israelites, "When you hear His voice, harden not your heart." If they had properly utilized the first day, another day would not have been fixed for them. It all boils down to the fact that

the Israelites did not enter, but the Greeks and the Gentiles did. That was why God out of His

loving kindness, fixed another day. This Gospel of this morning, showed very clearly that The

Holy Spirit uses love, mercy, patience, meekness, humility, and temperance to rule over all

humanity. And these virtues of God are what His children should possess or look for, rather

than for the cars, houses, wife, husband, children and money etc. For if you own all these

mundane things and lose The Kingdom of God, what benefit are they to you? And if you own

material things, but you have no ability to practice The Word of God, then, The Kingdom shall

be taken away from you and given to those who are really qualified. What shall it profit a

man if he gains the whole world but suffers the loss of his life.

It is self-evident that it is better to get into The Kingdom of God with one hand or one

eye, rather than go to hell with both hands and eyes. Rather then you to be a king in the

kingdom of Satan, it is better to be a slave in The Kingdom of God instead of you to be a

millionaire in the kingdom of Satan.

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It will pay more to be a poor wretched person in The Kingdom of God. When this thing

was directed to the Israelites and today's Christendom, they never believed it. This Kingdom

shall be taken away from you and given to any nation that will do what is pleasing to God. If

you ever think seriously about the gospel of today it should be an eye-opener for you. It is a

great homework, which should occupy our minds and enable us to readjust our thinking. All

the Christians, the Muslims, the churches, the politicians and all the occultists should think

about this Gospel, and begin to come back to their God and Creator. Those of you who look for

glory from the hands of men, how can you at the same time serve God?

This is The Kingdom of God, and when you have it, you become self-sufficient, and you

are immediately endowed with The Virtues of God such as love, peace, joy, patience,

endurance, meekness, humility and righteousness. You would not need to go and plead with

anybody to do you a favor. Your community may ostracize you, and say they have nothing to

do with you socially; or the family reject you for not following their line of action, or even the church; or the government might sack you from work, and you become dejected and

desperate, yet if you lose these, but enter into The Kingdom of God, you have in fact lost

nothing at all. That is why all true Brotherhood members do not look unto their families,

governments, churches, and society or on any person for help, but unto God. And that is the

more reason why we should do The Will of God who will never disappoint us. For, those who

practice righteousness, the eyes of God are always focused on them. The Muslims, the

Christendom and other religious are looking for this Kingdom of God; and since all these

people are looking for this Kingdom, it is then incumbent on us to rearrange our own

thinking so as to take the advantage we now have, for getting a place in this Kingdom.

All evildoers such as drunkard’s fornicators, murderers, backbiters, swindlers and

thieves have no share at all in this Kingdom. Those who, therefore hope on this Kingdom,

should not commit sin, worship idols, and initiate themselves into traditional societies and

cults, such as Ogboni, Amorc and the rest of the secular organizations and fraternities. Those

who indulge in all these demonic things are not worthy. Our Lord Jesus Christ said unless you

deny yourself of many worldly things, hate your brethren, wife, children, husband or the

material things of this world, you shall not qualify for this Kingdom. If you do not take your

cross and follow Him, you shall not enter because the native doctor, necromancer, and Satan

shall laugh at you if you do not have any share in it at the end. How shall you feel if you see

people from USA, India, Europe, other parts of Africa, come to have their share in this

Kingdom but you who professed to have served God for 20 years, 30 years and 40 years are

thrown out? It will be a great shame to you who profess to be chairman of this fellowship, or

the other, yet you are found to have been conspicuously absent from this Kingdom.

That is why this Gospel has to be disseminated to all inhabitants of the world so that all

those who have been having a wrong concept that this Kingdom is for Biakpan, Nigeria,

Africa should stop it; for nobody shall enter or have a share in it if he does not do The Will of

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God. They should no longer make such noisy claims, shouting hallelujah as though entry into

The Kingdom depends on such aimless noisemaking. If the Africans, refuse to accept The

Kingdom and do it's bidding, they will lose it. All should realize that Egypt was the cradle of

civilization, but where is Egypt now in the affairs of the world today? All forms of scientific,

technological and mathematical breakthrough in the world today started in Egypt. The

manufacture of vehicles, aircraft and the rest of it; all the formulas were initiated from

Egypt, but today Egypt is still one of the countries in the developing world. That is why it is

said that a wise man sees evil from afar and takes precautions, but the foolish person wants

evil to happen to him before he regrets later.

The things of God are purely spiritual and just. Nepotism and discrimination do not

come in. God neither compromises nor condones anything evil. The question as to whether

someone is your brother or sister does not arise. Therefore all must endeavor to do their very

best to enter this Kingdom, as this does not require money nor material wealth. It only

requires righteousness. There are no Godfathers in the affairs of God. You should seek for the

food that shall not perish. Do not be despondent that you have no money, nobody, no wife,

nor husband, for all these are irrelevant in the affairs of God; what is needed from you is only

righteousness. When you practice His Words that entitles you to direct entry into God's

Kingdom. You can ride straight and comfortable into The Kingdom of God.

Right from 1960, when Nigeria got her independence, those who boasted of their

positions as presidents, governors, ministers, etc. have gone into oblivion. It was just the

same thing that happened to former world powers such as the Babylonian kingdom, the

Medo-Persia, the Grecian and the Roman Empires. All went into oblivion and to rise no more.

It shows the emptiness of the mundane powers, which you have very high regard for these

days. It is not only peculiar to Nigeria. Many other countries of the world and their presidents

and empires have all faded away into nothingness. All the noise, claims and counterclaims

have all gone with them into oblivion.

And The Kingdom of Jehovah God and His Christ which Daniel prophesied about, is

now to be ruling and reigning, and shall last for eternity. And of a truth, liars, thieves,

murderers, swindlers, manipulators and all the unrighteous, shall not rule again. The

kingdoms of this world have been snatched from the earthly rulers and given to those who

practice The Word of God. Your numerical strength does not matter; even if it is one man;

that one righteous man, shall rule and reign alone, irrespective of wherever he comes from.

For it is written in the Bible (Psalms 127:1) that unless Jehovah God builds a house, they

that labor to build it, labor but in vain; and in the same vein unless Jehovah God watches over

a city, the watchmen watches in vain. You will remember when the 10 virgins went to a

marriage ceremony (Matthew 25:1-12). Five wise virgins put sufficient oil in their lamps and

had some reserve. But the other virgins neither had enough oil nor any reserve. And so when

the bridegroom delayed till midnight, the oil of the foolish virgins got finished. They went to

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the wise ones for more oil, but unfortunately for them the wise ones said that they had just

enough for themselves and advised them to go and buy theirs. And they went out to purchase

oil, and ever since then these foolish virgins were yet to come back and join the others. The

door was shut against them.

I would also like to remind you about that rich man, in the Bible (Matthew 19:16-23)

who said that he had kept the laws and the prophets. The rich man asked Our Lord Jesus, what

else he should do to have eternal life. Christ told him that he still had one hurdle to overcome,

and that was that he should go and sell all his belongings and distribute the same to the poor.

And furthermore he should come and follow Him. That he would have greater wealth then he

had ever had if he complied. God had already revealed this Kingdom to Prophet Daniel during

the reign of King Nebuchadnezzar. Daniel told him many kingdoms would come in series,

each one fading away and giving room to the next, until all shall have been completely

destroyed from the earth plane. But eventually that of Jehovah God and His Christ would

come and rule and reign for eternity.

And it was also predicted by Moses that at the close of this age, (Acts 3:22-23) a prophet

shall arise, and those who would not want Him to rule, shall be brought before Him and

killed. Therefore let not the false accusations, abuses, curses, humiliations which we have

been receiving because of this Kingdom be in vain. Let our sleepless nights and other

sacrifices be not in vain. Let us not allow the things of the flesh and the material

considerations block our minds. For, I say, that The Kingdom of Our Lord Jesus The Christ has

finally arrived. Brethren, I shall not be tedious unto you. Let the Golden Text be read, as I am

not going to be tedious unto you.

GOLDEN TEXT: MATTHEW 12:50

For whosoever shall do The Will of My Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother,

sister and mother.

The person who interprets this Gospel, and the person who shall write out this Gospel

those who spread, and those who listen or read this Gospel and put the same into practice

should regard themselves as being the luckiest in the world. This Gospel shall be made into a

small pamphlet for distribution to banks, offices, corporate bodies, governments’

departments, mercantile houses and to all the fellowships.

Wherever does The Will and Purpose of God is my mother, father, brother, sister, and

relation. God does not look for Orthodox churches and their Cathedrals. What God looks for

are those who practice righteousness and do His Will. He is not interested in the Duke town,

Catholic or in any well-decorated sanctum or church buildings. He is not looking for Black or

White or Colored people, or any other things for that matter, but for those who will do what is

pleasing to Him.

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You must remember that a sick person who laid beside the pond of water for 38 years

(John 5:5-8), he had nobody to help him. When Our Lord Jesus the Christ saw him, he asked if

he was desirous to go home. He told Christ that it would be impossible for him to go home

since he had nobody to put him into the water so as to be healed when the Angels troubled the

water. Our Lord Jesus the Christ told him to take up his mat and go home. The man

automatically became well. Jesus the Christ was then his brother and relation. Therefore

whoever does The Will of God; God will become everything for him. All the time shouting,"

Jesus, up" and, "Satan, down," cannot salvage anyone at all. What is really needed is to do God's Will. It is needless calling Jesus Christ your friend and brother when you are not

prepared to do His Will. It is a reality that people shall come from the north, south, east and

west to sit in His Kingdom. A Russian, an American, an Indian, or an African who does what

pleases God, shall be admitted into The Kingdom.

There is no church, no person, no organization or religion that is good enough. Rather

it is only those who do The Will of God that are good enough to be chosen. That is why we

start from January to December yearly teaching you to come to The Accurate Knowledge of

Truth. For this is the only path to salvation. What do you do with the glory and the power of

man, which passes away soon? The time of glory and pride of man has ended. And this is the

Golden Reign and Rule of Jehovah God and His Christ. There is one spiritual song, which says

that whoever is with God must certainly overcome the world. Should we miss this Kingdom

for anybody’s sake after having suffered for it for many years, it would be something

pathetic.

I thank The Holy Spirit for this wonderful message of salvation and spiritual liberation,

which He has so graciously given to us. We thank The Holy Spirit for the interpreter and the

writer of this Gospel for if our God had wished that we should perish, He should not have sent

us this unique Gospel of salvation. Brethren, God is true, and His words are also true, and we

are thankful to him that He is not discriminatory. "Any country, nation, race, tribe, family, community and religion which does His will, will get the right to be His children and He will

admit them into His Kingdom. These are Words of God, you have seen Him and that is really

what this New Kingdom is all about. Whether you are an Egyptian, an Indian, a Muslim, a

French man, a Buddhist, but you do His Will, He is your brother and your sister. Nobody is

known by the flesh.

You are known by your righteousness. A man is known only by God if he does what is

pleasing to Him. Don't deceive yourself that you are a bishop, pope or that you have founded

so many churches because such claims shall not save you. The only thing, which shall save

you, is to do The Will of God. For when you do The Will of God, He will become all things for

you. Even if you are rejected and ostracized in the society once you do The Will of God you

have nothing to fear. For God will give you your life's ambitions and desires.

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It is said that a stroke of the cane is sufficient for the wise, let those who have ears to hear,

let them hear. May God Bless His Words. Amen.

THANK YOU FATHER

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LOVE IS THE IDENTITY CARD OF THIS KINGDOM

FIRST BIBLE LESSON: JOHN 13:35

By this shall all know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

SECOND BIBLE LESSON: REVELATION 2:4-5

Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. Remember

therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come

unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.

GOLDEN TEXT: REVELATION 3:21

To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and

am set down with my Father in His throne.

Brethren that is the theme of our revelation this night. If we have love, we shall stay

together with Our Lord Jesus Christ in The Kingdom of God. If we have love the whole world

will know that we are the Disciples of Christ. Founding a church does not cause any person to

be known as a disciple of Christ. To build a school and be highly educated cannot make you a

disciple of Our Lord Jesus Christ either. To go to church and be appointed to a high position in

the church cannot make you a disciple of Our Lord Jesus Christ. The only passport and

credential and qualifications required is "Love". As one of your spiritual choruses asks,

"Whether you have an identity card?" The identity card of this Kingdom is love. Whosoever has no love has not got and identity card; and can, therefore, not enter.

THE PRINCIPLE OF THE KINGDOM IS LOVE

If you fail to enter this Kingdom of God, it implies that you have departed from the

first love that you had. And so brethren, the guiding principle is that we all must have love.

See that none of you is exasperated, or quarrel, or fight, or begrudge any person, or take court

actions against anyone. But seek after love, which is the only injunction from heaven. All

those who tell lies, have no love. All those who hate their brethren have no love. All of those

who begrudge others have no love. All those who quarrel, have no love. All of those who

fornicate have no love. All those who are not merciful unto others, have no love. And here we

are reminded that if we have love for one another, then will people know we are the disciples

of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

WE HAVE PASSED FROM DEATH INTO LIFE

People are very fond of shouting upon the name of Our Lord Jesus Christ. No matter

how loud your shouts are, if you have no love, your shouts mean nothing. Some claim to

know Our Lord Jesus Christ. Why is it that they have no love? Whosoever loves his brethren

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has love. If you have love you will sit on the right hand of God in His throne, even as The Son

of God is sitting. Wherever you find yourself if you have love, you are admitted into the

throne of God. We have been taken out from the old world, that world of suffering, and woe,

and sorrow into the New Kingdom of God. We have been taken out of the world of sin into the

world of righteousness. Now there is no other law in this Kingdom apart from love alone.

Therefore, in the throne of God only love prevails.

LOVE PREVAILS IN THE THRONE OF GOD

You are aware of the spiritual chorus we always sing, "The covenant has gone, the

covenant of Moses, love is the new commandment." Do not be deceived that you are a

chorister, a visioner, a preacher, one who offers prayers, an Elder, and what have you. This

Kingdom is nothing else but love. What will make the people identify you, as the child of God

is this love. It is because of love that people will hate you. It is only through love that you have dominion over death, sickness, poverty and all manners of sin. It is only through love that

you sit in the throne of God and the Lamb. The secret in this Kingdom is love. The foundation

stone of this Kingdom is love. The Christ said, "Not those who call me Lord, Lord will enter

into the Kingdom of Heaven but those who do The Will of my Father. (Matthew 7:21) what is

The Will of The Father? The Will of The Father is to love. The Kingdom of God is love since Our

Lord Jesus Christ is love it is incumbent upon all the inhabitants of the world to love one

another. It is love that makes you real brotherhood.

YOU SHOULD ALL CHANGE OVER

All those who have no love are subjects of suffering and afflictions. This explains why

we should repent and go back to the first love we had. Money will not make you sit with Our

Lord Jesus Christ in His throne. If you have money, or children or wealth it means you have

not overcome but if you have love, you have overcome. This "changeover" should symbolize love. All those who quarrel and fight, begrudge others, think evil, become exasperated, and

bear malice, should change over and wear the armor of love. It is a period of changing over

from hatred, from malice, from anger, from fastidiousness, from falsehood, from theft, from

fornication and from all acts of sin. If you have been imputing sins on people, change over

and begin to lead a righteous life so that you can sit in The Throne of God. If you had never

appreciated what another person was doing, please change over and appreciate others. If you

are one who always wants people to serve you, changeover and serve others. If you were

proud and arrogant changeover, and be humble. If we profess to be Brotherhood and in this

period of change we do not love all men, we are deceiving ourselves. All those who confess

they have neither love nor goodness, should remember the first love and changeover. So

brethren whether or not you have money, have love, because only love can take you into The

Kingdom of God. No other thing can enter therein except love. The New Kingdom is love; The

Throne of God is also love. I do not want to overload you. The First Lesson will now be read.

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FIRST BIBLE LESSON: JOHN 13:35

By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

Brethren have you heard that? That is exactly what Jehovah God and His Christ require

from us. Whosoever has love is known of God. Let us have love, which emanates from a pure

heart. Whosoever has love will not wait to be asked to do what is good. If you have love, you

will do what is good always, and you will always think rightly. You have to live exemplary life

in your thoughts, words, deeds, actions and movements so that you will give glory to The

Almighty God.

ONLY LOVE CAN SAVE YOU

It is not vision or prayer or preaching that will save you but if you have love for all men

then you stand saved. If you had no love in the past, from now on, beginning from this

changeover, you must love. If in the past you had been doing good to somebody but because

he offended you, and you refuse to do good to him, seize this opportunity and change over

and repent and confess your sins. You have heard that any person who has love has passed

from death onto life, but those who have no love abide in death. (First John 3:14) you can

observe that from January to December every year, we preach no other sermon except love.

ONLY LOVE CONQUERS

Who is the person who conquers? It is the person who has love. Since God Himself

abides in love, The Christ abides in love, The Holy Spirit abides in love, we all ought to abide in love. Love is The Throne of God and of The Christ and it is The Throne of Brotherhood. It is this

opportunity that The Holy Spirit has seized to chasten us, reprove us, rebuke us and to change

us where we err, so that we go back to our first love. Now that He has changed you, do not go

back to the world of sin. He uses love to change us. We should, therefore have love, lowliness

of the heart, meekness and tolerance, accommodating and enduring what we see from day to

day.

THE CORRUPTIBLE PUTS ON INCORRUPTIBLE

Whoever comes into The Kingdom of God will realize that it requires no other thing

apart from love. There is no other Throne of God apart from love. There is no other glory,

apart from love. It means, that whosoever has love, has overcome the world. Any person who

has love overcomes death, sickness, the Hades, tribulations and wretchedness. Rebuke and

reprove all those who have no love, and teach them to love. From now on, irrespective of your

station and disposition in life, let no person nurse animosity against another person.

If you begrudge any other, repent and be saved because The Father has changed us and

has taken away from us the carnal body of sinfulness, the corruptible body, the body of

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fornication, the mortal body, the vile body, and has changed us into spirit, incorruptible and

immortal. (1 Corinthians 15:53) at every moment of our life, in the morning, in the afternoon,

in the evening and the night, during the day, at dawn and at dusk have love, show love,

demonstrate love, speak the words of love in your prayers, and your songs, in your testimony,

and in your preaching. When you submit to love, you will also submit to God.

THE LAND OF RIGHTEOUSNESS

The promise, which He made to us, was that if we have love we shall sit in The Throne

of God even as He sits on The Throne of The Father. As He has the right to sit and enjoy every

privilege, you also have the right, and we all have the right and the privilege. A great many of

us, have eyes but cannot see, this is The Throne of God notwithstanding. In it no sin can enter.

If you were to know The Throne of God, no person would quarrel or fight, or commit any sin

or even pronounce woe and curses on people. You are not called to quarrel and fight, to

scramble and begrudge people, to criticize and condemn but you are called to demonstrate

love. If somebody asks you what Brotherhood is, tell him that Brotherhood is love. If he

further asks what you learn, tell him you are taught love. If he asks you further the reason of

your faith, tell him your faith is in Our Lord Jesus Christ. He says whosoever overcomes will

sit with Him in The Father's Throne. (Revelation 3:21) today He had openly declared to us that

if we have no love, we will be annihilated from the surface of the earth. A wise man suspects

a disaster when it is yet far away and takes precaution, but a foolish man stays until it

reaches him before he arranges to take caution. Do not boast because of your wealth, or

because of your beauty or because of your education or that you are in Brotherhood, but

boast because you have love. If you bear malice against anyone, if you begrudge any person,

repent. Repent of all your sins, your evil utterances, your animalistic behavior, your

pugnacious and quarrelsome tendencies, and begin to demonstrate love.

Whosoever has no love has no share in The Kingdom of God. Whatever you are, if you

do not demonstrate love, you have no share in The Kingdom of God. Do not be laughed at by a

necromancer on the final day of reckoning because of lack of love. The Scriptures say that

whosoever shall keep the whole law and yet offends in one point he is guilty of all. For He that

says, do not commit adultery also says do not kill, if you do not commit adultery but you kill,

you have become a transgressor of the law (James 2:10-11). We are definitely very lucky in

this era that things we have forgotten, what we do not know, what we have less regard to, The

Father reminds us all.

BROTHERHOOD CAME FROM THE THRONE OF GOD

Many people believe that when you love, you are submitting yourself in the service of

people, but they do not know that when you love you are in The Throne of God. Whosoever

loves his fellow human being, sits in The Throne of God. All those who love, dwell in The

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Kingdom of God. Whenever you see any person who has love, do not ask him about Jehovah

God and His Christ because He dwells in him, and he in Him. All those who love come from

The Throne of God into this world. Brotherhood came from that throne. That is why when you

are in Brotherhood if you were to have love you would not have shown any propensity to

fighting and quarreling and committing all acts of sins. Why we deny ourselves of

everything, why we do not fornicate, steal, tell lies is that we may sit on The Throne of God. I

do not say such a person will sit, but whoever has not love cannot sit on The Throne of God

neither can she demonstrate the attributes of truth, humility, patience, peace, joy and self-

control.

EVERYTHING WILL PASS AWAY BUT LOVE WILL ENDURE FOREVER

What we should now concentrate our attention on is to have love, one to another, not

to be exasperated with anyone, and not to indulge in any act of sin, in order that we may have

good report. We are told that The Commandment of God is that, as the children of God we

should have love, one towards the other. If, therefore, you have no love, you are dead. Love

had existed before the foundations of the world were laid. The world will pass away but love

will not pass away forever. If I love you and you reciprocate my love we shall remain in peace;

there will be no quarreling, no fighting and no warfare. If you love me and I love you, the

desire to do good will always be kindled in our hearts and this will remain indelible,

constantly reminding us of what good we should do. When that is done, death, sickness,

poverty, warfare will be swept away. Any person, who is truthful and humble, sits on The

Throne of God. Brethren I do not want to take you any further. Our Second Lesson will now be

read.

SECOND BIBLE LESSON: REVELATION 2:4-5

Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. Remember

therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come

onto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.

Brethren can you notice what is called love. He says I have something against you that

you departed from the first love. If you have been loving somebody from your infancy and at

your adulthood, misunderstanding sets in, and you sever your relationship, go back and

revive that first love, install and maintain it.

RETURN TO THE FIRST LOVE

When God sent Jonah to tell the people of Nineveh to repent, he went and preached to

them. The king fell from his throne and rolled in dust putting on sackcloth. All the citizens

repented and God saved them. (Jonah 3:6-10) this night that we are finalizing the period of

changeover for this year, (July 7-July 14) every person should do what is good in the sight of

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God throughout his life on earth. Do not turn back, do not backslide, do not retrogress, do not

steal, fornicate, tell lies, drink, do snuff, give or take bribes, and indulge yourself in the

preparation of concoctions. But move forward with joy to do what is good throughout the

days of your life.

This statement is not made by an angel but by Our Lord Jesus Christ, straight. He said,

"Nevertheless I have somewhat against you because you have left your first love. Remember,

therefore, from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works or else I will come

unto you quickly and will remove the candlestick out of its place, except repent." You have

departed from the love of God, and you rather love food, preparations of concoctions,

drinking, snuffing, fornication and other carnal things, which lead you to death, sickness

and wretchedness.

CHANGEOVER MEANS GLORIFICATION OF GOD

A great many people do not know that old things have passed away that love alone is in

vogue. The celebration we observe in this "changeover" week is the glorification of God and demonstration of love because The Father, The Son, The Holy Spirit and the Children of God

have joined hands together. All those who fell short of the love of God should now repent and

be penitent; and from now on you should not allow any person to induce you to quarrel fight

or commit any act of sin, but always abide in love. Wine and the preparation of concoctions

will not admit you into this Kingdom neither will the worldly knowledge of this Kingdom

save you, except love alone.

Brotherhood has come to save the whole world from roguery, quarreling, fighting and

other acts of sin, from death, sickness, poverty, and oppression; and to use love to save all.

When you go home read that passage of the Bible again whether your own version will be

different. Our Great Judge, our Great Leader, our Great Warrior, our Great Father says He has

something against the inhabitants of the world for loss of the first love. He warns that we

should go back to pick up from where we had fallen and repent otherwise we will not be

saved because He will remove the candlestick from its place.

LOVE CASTAWAY FEAR

If you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the

truth. The wisdom descends not from God but is earthly, sensual and devilish. For where

envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. (James 3:13-17) The house we

have is love, the bank we have is love, all we have are based on love. We should remember the

first love and pursue it. The spirit we have is love. Whatever love costs us we should endeavor

to standby it. In righteousness, The Holy Spirit judges and makes war. Brotherhood is love,

The Holy Spirit is love, Our Lord Jesus Christ is love, and Jehovah God and His Christ is love.

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We should forsake hatred, animosity, malice, and seek after love; love which is without

dissimilation and flattery and try to escrow craftiness.

ANY WAR WAGING IS WARFARE OF LOVE

You continue to drink but you forget that you are not born with wine. You fornicate

and argue that you cannot do without fornication; you were not born with fornication. You

who indulge in the preparations of concoction and charm, you were not born with these

diabolical things. Abandon all these and follow Our Lord Jesus Christ. We have to love because

if we do not love He will deny us, and He will remove the candlestick from its place, and we

shall fall short of the glory and salvation of God. A great many of you have now been elevated

to the first Temple. Some to the second and others are in paradise. You always think that it is

a dream. It is not, but real. There is no other war apart from the warfare of love. When

somebody offends you, do good to him. Evil should always run away from you. Do not be

overcome with evil but overcome evil with good. (Romans 12:21) but a real child of God who is

in The Throne of God cannot be exasperated. Our Golden Text will not be read.

GOLDEN TEXT: REVELATION 3:21

To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in My Throne, even as I also overcame, and

am set down with My Father in His Throne.

This throne is kept for all the children of God. The throne is not only for Our Lord Jesus

Christ or for Peter but for me and for all who seek after Him. If you overcome, not through

enmity, and not through vengeance, and not through departure from the first love, you will

sit in The Throne of God. We have the right to thank God for changing us over, and for

making this week a Holy Week. All those who conquer will sit on the right hand of God The

Father.

THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS WITHIN YOU

Do not say in your heart, "Who shall ascend into heaven to bring down The Christ from

above or who shall descend into the deep to bring up The Christ from the dead. (Romans 10:6-

7) but what has righteousness said? The Word is near you even in your mouth and in your

heart that is The Word of Faith, which we preach. The Kingdom of God is nearer to you than

the tongue to the mouth. He is looking for you and for all creations.

GOD CHASTENS A CHILD HE LOVES

Whatever you see is the chastening of God. (Hebrews 12:6). People in the world depart

from the love of God and rather tend towards love for money, for knowledge, wealth, wife,

husband, children and all mundane things. That is why God has chosen to chasten us. There

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is good and all other things in this Kingdom, but when once you have love everything is at

your disposal. It does not cost you anything.

ANY PERSON WHO HAS LOVE IS KNOWN OF GOD

To serve in the Kingdom is to have love. What we do is done by The Father, and we have

to do all the work. If you have love, you are known of God. But if you do not love, you are not

known of Him. Brethren, I do not intend to be tedious unto you. One stroke of the cane is

sufficient for the wise. Those who have ears let them hear. May God Bless His Holy Words.

Amen.

Reference: everlasting sermon delivered by the sole spiritual head of the universe, leader

olumba olumba obu on: love is the identity card of this kingdom.

THANK YOU FATHER

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WHERE LIES YOUR SALVATION?

FIRST LESSON: MATTHEW 24:21

For then shall be great tribulation, such as hath not been since the beginning of the world to

this time, no, nor ever shall be.

SECOND LESSON: 2ND THESSALONIANS 2:9

Even Him, whose coming is after the working of Satan, with all power, and signs, and lying

wonders.

GOLDEN TEXT: MATTHEW 24:22

And except those days should be shortened, there would no flesh be saved: but for the Elect’s

sake those days shall be shortened.

MAN’S SPIRITUAL WEAKNESS

The greatest spiritual weakness is that the world does not know where her salvation

emanates from. Men who are weak in practicing God’s Word all over the world have been

lying dead in a confused state of ignorance as to where their salvation lies. I pity you

brethren. I pity the world as a whole. And because I pity you and love you, I have chosen to

preach this Gospel to you. This I know will reveal to you where your salvation lies. Most men

blame their troubles on their fellow men. When they are smitten sick, they blame it on their

friends. When they are robbed, they find ways and means to accuse man of it. These people

fail completely to know that all the suffering of man are planned. They fail to realize that our

troubles, wars and other calamities have been prophesied. Today calamities persist

everywhere. The world all over is in trouble.

There is war here and there. Man is confused, his trouble prevents him from thinking

correctly, and his thoughts are full of evil. He is troubled at sea, in the ocean; the animals of

the earth and the fowls of the air are also troubled. The fishes of the sea tremble in fear;

nobody knows exactly what to do. The question is who can tell The Way and The Will of God?

To call off his woes is what man wants God to do for him. His sufferings, hunger, famine,

sickness and his want are what man wants God to remove out of his way or from this world.

Brethren, where do you want your troubles driven? Was it not prophesied that you must

attain your destiny? Were you not told to get prepared for them? Every one of you should

know that God is now exhibiting His Wrath on man. God must do this in order that His Son

should come and reign. Why do you doubt God’s Power? Man, why slumber and live in sin?

Why lie down in silence and allow Satan to take possession of you? Know you not that the

hour is at hand. The end of the world is at hand.

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The Son of God is breaking the glorious cloud towards you. He is near. He must come. If

He does not come, Satan would rule over you. This world must end otherwise the tribulation

will be great. Let us therefore know where we are and who will save us. Money, man and

education cannot save us. Can earthly inventions and discoveries save us? No! None of these

things can save us. Think of it; they have no power of any kind to save man. Bombs, guns,

flogging (beating) and weeping have no power of their own and they do not bring salvation to

you. When The Christ is near, man trembles with fear. What is greater than the prophecy that

The Son of God must come to save you and the people of the world? What is greater than that

warning about the coming salvation? Man! You must change from your evil ways for His

Coming. You must be prepared to be one of His Elects.

It is written that only the Elects shall be saved. We are saved because of the Elect’s sake.

(See Matthew 24:22) This is the right hour for the Elects to wake up and save the world. The

moment has arrived. The prophesied tribulation is shaking the world. Stand up men of God,

stand up; stand firm and do His Will and the world will be saved through you.

ONLY THE ELECTS WILL SAVE YOU

You keep wondering as to what will save us. Will killing, drinking of alcohol, making

juju and fornicating save us? Brethren, these will not surely give you the salvation you want.

It is said that only the Elects will save you. Are sinners the Elects? No! Sins are destructive.

They are satanic and are your enemies. All earthly inventions e.g. bombs, guns and all other

kinds of weapons are satanic; they are your enemies and are the cause of your troubles on

earth, God does not like them. He frowns at them because they destroy life and are evil. The

Will of God of course must be done. There must be these tribulations. There must be these

evils as it was prophesied, and in the end, The Coming of The Christ with its attendant

salvation. Brethren; the time has come, repent and follow God, and Our Lord Jesus Christ and

be saved. Re-examine the First Lesson:

FIRST LESSON: MATTHEW 24:21

For then shall be great tribulation, such as hath not been since the beginning of the world to

this time, no, nor ever shall be.

THE SHAKING OF THE EARTH

Brethren, you agree that war, fighting, hunger, famine, poverty and oppression have

shaken you, shaken your family, association and friendship? Have you not seen how

tribulation has shaken the whole world at large? Where can we not feel tribulation?

Husbands and wives disagree; parents and children are often as daggers-drawn and destroy

themselves; illnesses of all sorts have refused to yield to treatment. Brethren, the time has

come. Change your ways and be saved. Re-examine the Second Lesson:

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SECOND LESSON: 2ND THESSALONIANS 2:9

Even Him, whose coming is after the working of Satan, with all power, and signs, and lying

wonders.

THE FULFILLMENT OF THE SCRIPTURE

Brethren, have you not seen that the above excerpt has been fulfilled. Satan has come

with power to trouble man in the world. He has threatened the life of man with his devilish

inventions namely guns, bombs and all other known scientific inventions. Know that our

forefathers never used guns and bombs and there was peace. Your so- called scientific

inventions have come to destroy the peace of the world. They have not come to save us. They

have neither power nor intention to give us salvation. They have only brought confusion and

woes unto man. All those who invented these things should not rejoice and think they are

intelligent. Their intelligence is satanic, destructive and evil. These inventions cannot bring

peace, love, truth, mercy, humility and everlasting life. No! They cannot bring happiness, The

True Life of God. Our hope in them is nothing save destruction. Brethren, The Gospel must be

fulfilled. It is written that Satan must threaten the world by its satanic performances. The

world is being goaded by Satan; so do not depend on Satan for help. You must not allow

yourself to be guided by Satan. If you do, you will be doomed.

GOD’S PROMISE

Only God can save you through the Elects. God has promised you that only those who

fear Him and do His Will shall see salvation and His Light. The Elects have been chosen to

save mankind but man has always treated them with disregard and contempt. God had

wanted to, when He destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, save them if only five Elects could be

found in them. Brethren, you cannot save yourself. You cannot save your homes, countries,

friends and towns by fighting. You cannot be saved by money and by your own wisdom. Only

God can do that. He alone has power to save. Therefore, obey Him and all will be well with you. If you want peace in your home and country, go to God and do His Will. Be the Chosen

Sons of God by working for Him. Be ye True Children of God and you will be able to save your

lives and your country.

God has promised to shorten the days of tribulation for the Elect’s sake. Therefore,

make haste to be elected as the Chosen Sons of God. Make haste to be chosen for the salvation

of this world. By doing this, you will be greatly rewarded. God saves the world through the

poor, the meek, and the rejected who have repented and followed Him. The rich, the great and

the highly educated have found it difficult to save the world. They are not at all meant to save

you or the world. Only the Elects can redeem you. The Elects are the righteous and the

upright in deeds and words. Brethren, do not weary, work hard for God and your lives will be

saved and prosperous at last. Stand firm and be strong brethren; do the right thing. Stand up

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and save the world from destruction and you will be rewarded both on earth and in heaven.

Re-examine the Golden Text:

GOLDEN TEXT: MATTHEW 24:22

And except those days should be shortened, there would no flesh be saved: but for the Elect’s

sake those days shall be shortened.

THE PROMISE THAT GLADDENS THE HEART

Brethren, this promise is for you. The days have been shortened because of you. This is

done for your salvation and that of the world. Your reward for being the Elects is the

salvation that God has given to the world. It has been said that The Chosen People of God only

will have it. This is the unfailing promise of God to them. Believe this wonderful promise. It

shall not fail. It is true and must come to pass.

Your task is to go to the world and preach this Gospel to people. Preach The Way of God.

Preach His Holiness and practice same for your salvation and that of the world as a whole.

Draw near to God so as to be redeemed. Satan will not redeem you. He has no power to save

you; his ways are destructive. The Power of Salvation belongs to God. God alone can redeem

the world through His Elects. Work hard brethren for righteousness sake. Work for the Peace

of God. Work hard for all The Qualities of God. Work harder for your own interest and

salvation. God is by your side. He will not leave you alone. He is ready to help you in all

aspects of life if only you follow Him and do His Will. He cannot fail you. All things are

possible with God. Brethren, you have been chosen to do His Will. Do it and yours is salvation

and peace. Those who have ears let them hear. May The Lord Bless His Holy words. Amen.

THANK YOU FATHER

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PRACTICE THE WORDS OF GOD

1st Lesson: St. John 14: 21

He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that

loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.

Golden Text: St. Matthew 7: 24-25

Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a

wise man, which built his house upon a rock: And the rain descended, and the floods came,

and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.

FAITH CONNOTES PRACTISING THE WORD OF GOD

Beloved, have you now realized what is meant by faith? Being faithful simply means

accepting to practice The Words of God every time, everywhere. Often people mock at you

when you claim to have seen God face to face. This is as a result of the fact that they always

see you indulging in sins.

A woeful sinner who claims to see God face to face does not understand what he says.

You are often mocked by the people of the world for claiming to see God face to face yet you

wallow in sinfulness. It is the faithful alone that God reveals Himself to, whoever rejects The

Word of God cannot see God. And whoever believes not in God and His Words cannot be His

disciple. You have been enjoined not to steal, tell lies, fornicate, use medication, quarrel and

engage in the like deeds. You must refrain from these so as to be saved. At any point in time

you practice The Word of God, you automatically become one with Him. How can you claim

to be seeing God face to face yet you practice none of His injunctions? Anyone who believes

not in God cannot practice His injunctions. Invariably, if you do not practice His Words, you

cannot establish faith in Him. Read the First Lesson again:

1ST LESSON: ST. JOHN 14: 21

He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that

loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.

THE WORDS OF GOD IS POWER

A great number of people have failed today as a result of the fact that they have

shunned His commandments. The Word of God constitutes power. It is through The Word of

God that we have peace, love, prosperity, joy and other goodies in life including eternal life.

From January to December, I make sure The Word of God is imparted to you. Yet, you refuse

to practice same. To show your apathy towards The Word of God, some people do pay a deaf

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ear on hearing the Bible that marks the beginning of each service. Note that salvation is for

those who practice The Word of God.

Recall that in the time of Noah, only him and his household were saved. This was as a

result of the fact that they practiced The Word of God and had faith in God. You claim to have

seen God face to face, but do you know what your statement means? Bear in mind that seeing

God face-to-face means practicing His Words and forsaking all manners of sinfulness.

Having seen Him face to face, it then behooves upon you to shun all forms of hatred, malice,

segregation etc., and make sure you love all equally and also practice The Word of God. Read

the Golden Text again:

GOLDEN TEXT: ST. MATTHEW 7: 24-25

Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a

wise man, which built his house upon a rock: and the rain descended, and the floods came,

and the winds blew and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.

THE WORD OF GOD SAVES

At a point when a certain woman said to Our Lord Jesus Christ, Blessed is the womb

that bore you and the breast, which you sucked, Our Lord Jesus Christ replied her thus:

ST. LUKE 11: 28

"Yea rather, blessed are they that hear The Word of God, and keep it."

Here in The Kingdom, you are blessed with so many things. Your prayers are answered,

businesses boom, your sicknesses healed and you are blessed with all your needs. But these

things would not profit you anything if you still do not practice The Word of God and have

faith in God. Hence, salvation cannot be accorded you.

Irrespective of the positions you are made to acquire here in The Kingdom, in as much

as you do not practice The Word of God and have faith in Him, such positions are to no avail.

As many as heard The Word of God and did same had ascended to God. For instance,

Abraham, Abel, Melchizedek, Enoch, Noah and other prophets of old practiced The Word of

God and were elevated. Those who practice The Word of God are accounted worthy and given

a place, whereas those who do not practice The Word of God are unworthy and are discarded

from The Kingdom of God. Yesterday, I asked my children to read four gospels for me. At the

end of reading, I became astonished to realize that the partakers of such gospels still indulge

in sins, hatred, quarrelling, fornication, and the like evil deeds. As many as do not wish to

practice The Word of God, do not love God neither do they love their lives. That is why things

always go haywire with them. It is of immense importance for one to practice The Word of

God once you practice The Word of God, you are on top of the world. After all, Christ in our

Golden Text said:

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"Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him

unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: and the rain descended, and the floods

came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house and it fell not: for it was founded upon a

rock."

Therefore, you have no hope whatsoever if you do not practice The Word of God. It is

not good for you to claim to be a Brotherhood of the Cross and Star member yet, you still

engage in the deeds, which The Father forbids. In fact it profits you nothing to be recalcitrant

not to bow to His Words. For being a rebel, you cannot have peace, salvation or eternal life,

but damnation. It is said that a stroke of the cane is enough for the wise. Let those who have

ears hear what The Holy Spirit has imparted to the entire world. May God bless His Holy

Words. Amen.

THANK YOU FATHER

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FAITH IS ACQUIRED BY HEARING THE WORD OF GOD

First Bible Lesson: Romans 10:17

So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by The Word of God.

Second Bible Lesson: John 4:42

And said unto the woman, now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard him

ourselves, and know that this is indeed The Christ, The Savior of the World.

Golden Text: Luke 6: 47-48

Whosoever cometh to Me, and heareth My sayings, and doeth them, I will show you to whom

he is like: He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on

a rock, and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not

shake it: for it was founded upon a rock.

Brethren that is the theme of our lesson today. This marks the commencement of the

Conference of the Leader's Representatives. By right all the Children of God should be present

today to listen to this sermon. Many people do not want to come into this Kingdom of God

because they do not want to listen to The Word of God. How will you become a Leader's

Representative when you have not listened to The Word of God? How will you have faith if

you do not listen to the word of God? When the sermon is being preached, you move in and

out, you converse; you slumber and sleep, how will you be groomed in the word of God?

YOU CANNOT PREACH WITHOUT FIRST HEARING THE WORD OF GOD

Whenever you feel, because of your self-conceitedness and self-aggrandizement, that

you are the only right person to preach to others, and that no person has the right to preach

to you, you cannot understand The Word of God. A physician cannot heal himself. It is said

faith comes from hearing the word, what word? The Word of God. If you do not sit down

quietly and in absolute humility and listen to the word of God, tell me how you can

understand and preach to others. If you complain to me that your problem is lack of faith, it

means that you do not listen to the word of God.

FAITH COMES BY HEARING THE WORD OF GOD

It is said that Abraham had faith. He had faith because he listened to The Word of God

and believed in God. It is said Abel believed in God. It is that only he listened to, and complied with The Word of God. It is said: Today if you hear His voice do not harden your hearts.

(Hebrews 4:7). As long as you continue to toy with The Word of God, how will you be saved? If

you neither surrender yourself to The Word of God, nor wish to listen to The Word of God

how can you have faith? That is why it is asked, how shall they believe in Him of whom they

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have not heard? (Romans 10:14) faith comes from hearing the word, what word? The word of

God. When you listen to the word of God and put it into practice, it means you have faith.

WHOSOEVER BELIEVES IN DIABOLICAL THINGS DOES NOT LISTEN TO THE WORD OF GOD:

Up till today, a great many of us are still believing in witchery (witchcraft); others still

believe in mermaids; others still believe in apparitions; many others still believe in

preparation of concoctions. Why do you continue to believe in these diabolical things? It is

because you do not listen to The Word of God. But any person who listens to The Word of God,

assimilates The Word of God, and believes in The Word of God, will come to the realization

that neither witchery (witchcraft), nor mermaid, nor apparition, nor concoction exists. Any

person who complains that he has no faith is only betraying himself that he does not listen to

The Word of God; neither does he believe in God. And there is nothing else in this world that

can save us.

Without faith it is impossible to please God. Any person who has no faith cannot

believe in God, neither can he practice the word of God. If you count from Abel till today, you

will realize that it is only with faith that you can enter into the kingdom of God.

ABRAHAM OFFERED ISAAC BECAUSE OF HIS FAITH IN HIS GOD

What prompted Abraham to offer Isaac, his only begotten son as a sacrifice? It was

faith. What induced Abel to sacrifice his fattest ram to God? It was the faith he had. Why did

Moses refuse the son ship of Pharaoh and accepted to suffer for forty years? It was because of

his faith in God. What prompted Rahab the harlot, to hide in her house, the two spies who had

arrived to inspect the land of Jericho? She was protecting them from the people who pursued

them in order to kill them. It was because of her faith in God that eventually when Jericho

would be taken by the Israelites, she and her household would be saved. What caused the

Mother of Moses to hide Moses and prepare a basket in which to preserve the life of the child

in hiding, when King Pharaoh ordered the massacre of the innocent male children? It was her

faith in God.

PAYMENT OF THE TITHE DEPENDS ON FAITH

You will notice that without faith your regular attendance at worship is nothing. There

are certain people in the world who have never known nor heard anything about tithe

payment, free will offering and charity, and they have never offered any of these. And The

Voice of God reached the inhabitants of the world: "Even from the days of your fathers you

were gone away from my ordinances and you have not kept them. Return to me and I will

return to you. But you said wherein shall we return? Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed

me. But you say wherein have we robbed Thee? In tithes and offerings. You are therefore

cursed with a curse, for you have robbed me even this whole nation. Bring therefore all the

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tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in my house, and prove me herewith if I

will not open you the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing that there shall not be

room enough to receive it. And I will rebuke the devourer for your sake, and he will not

destroy the fruits of your ground, neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the

field, “saith the lord of hosts. (Malachi 3:7-11) But why is it that you have not paid your tithe

and you are not prepared to pay?

There is another person, who has never heard about the payment of tithe, but the day

he hears and pays his tithe, he has expressed faith in his God. Faith does not consist in

regular attendance at worship where you engage in arguments and disputing. When you are

rebuked for committing sin, you question what sin you have committed. It means you do not

believe in God.

These are the types of people whom Our Lord Jesus Christ referred to as people, who

have eyes but cannot see, they have ears but cannot hear, and they have hearts but they

cannot perceive.

FAITH WORKS ETERNAL LIFE

There is no other way in which you can serve God without having faith through

hearing The Word of God. No person can love God without faith. No person can have hope

without faith. No person can have faith without hearing the word of God. You are told that

God is in your heart and you should kneel down and call upon the name of God and he will

answer you, and if you comply accordingly, you will certainly be answered. If you abide by

the instructions that you should not steal and that you should not tell lies, it means you have

faith. You are told not to fornicate and not to drink any type of liquor and if you obey,

because of your faith expressed in your obedience, you will have eternal life. Whosoever

listens to The Word of God and fails to comply with the advice therein, is a child of perdition.

You are waiting for our lord Jesus Christ to come down from the sky. What else do you want

him to do? When our lord Jesus Christ came during his last advent, how many people believed

in him? Who is speaking now, is he not our lord Jesus Christ? And he asked: why call you me

lord, lord and do not the things which I say. (Luke 6:46) do you think that if people were to

listen to our lord Jesus Christ, they would have perished?

LACK OF FAITH WORKS PROBLEMS

He says whosoever rejects me and refuses to accept My Word, I do not judge him but

the words he has refused will judge him in the last day. All the punishments besetting the

world are due to people's unbelief, and due to their lack of faith. Whatsoever encumbrances

and difficulties that beset you are due to your lack of faith. But you argue that you cannot

believe until you see.

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Have you ever seen the word? And have you ever touched the word? Our Lord Jesus

Christ says blessed is he who has not seen and yet has believed. Right now your trouble is that

when you come before God you do not listen to The Word of God. You neither want to listen

nor practice The Word of God preached to you. What then is your faith? There is no other

thing that can save you except faith.

Where does faith emanate? From listening to the word of God. All those who are here

but previously did not believe in God, they were sick and unemployed as well as being fearful,

the moment they listen attentively to these words of God and believe fervently in the words

they are saved and all their problems solved. This is so because Peter cast his net throughout

the night but could not catch any fish. But when he met Our Lord Jesus Christ, He

commanded Peter to cast his net and launch in the deep for a draught. And Peter

argued: "Master we have toiled all night and had caught nothing, nevertheless at Thy Word, I

will let down the net." When he had done that he enclosed a great multitude of fishes and his net began to break. If you had been Peter you would have engaged in a long drawn argument

that you have toiled all night without catching any fish and that you were not prepared to

cast the net again.

OBEDIENCE IS BETTER THAN SACRIFICE

The same thing happened to Naaman the leaper when Elisha told him to go to the River

Jordan and wash there seven times but he argued that even at that time he was returning

from washing in the Jordan River but his servant told him, "My father, if the prophet had bid you do some great thing would you not have done it? How much rather than when he said to

you wash and be clean?" Then the servant said, "Suffer it now, Naaman then went to the

Jordan River, washed and was completely cleansed. Can you realize now that there is no faith

apart from the word of God? When you are told not to sin again, and you accept it and

comply with the instructions, when you are told that apparition, witchery, concoction and

ghost do not exist and you accept and believe that they do not exist. I declare from the high

heaven that there is no witchcraft, but you sit and make counter-declaration that there are

wizards and witches everywhere and that people should not mind me. You strongly believe in

the existence of witchery but that the wizards can no longer harm you. It is not only

shameful but disgraceful, in with regard to such person with these beliefs. Do you think if

you do not believe in the word of God you will have salvation?

THE WORD OF RIGHTEOUSNESS

Do not say within your heart who shall ascend into heaven to bring Our Lord Jesus

Christ from above, or who shall descend into the deep or hades to bring up Our Lord Jesus

Christ again from the dead. What has righteousness said? It says: The Word is nearer to you,

even in your mouth, and in your heart, that is the word of faith, which we preach. For if you

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will confess with your mouth The Lord Jesus Christ and shall believe in your heart that God

raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. The First Lesson will now be read.

FIRST BIBLE LESSON: ROMANS 10:17

So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing the word of God.

DO NOT DOUBT GOD AND DO NOT SIN

Brethren, have you heard what is read to you. The words you hear now can vividly be

confirmed by Christ Student Ime Akpakpan. He is my witness. He stood here and complained

that he was worried by wizard and witches and I halted him immediately, to nib his

contemplation in the bud. I told him witchcraft does not exist. From that day on, after

hearing The Word of The Father, he no longer believes in the existence of witchery. If you tell

him that somebody is worried by witchcraft and mermaid, he will laugh at you to scorn, for

faith comes from The Word. What word? The Word of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Every day you

are told that there is no witchcraft, no apparition, no mermaid but you continue to complain

that you are bewitched. You are making this complaint because you do not hear The Word of

God; neither do you believe in Christ. You are warned not to doubt your God and not to

fornicate, but you still doubt God and you fornicate. This is because you do not hear The Word

of God and you do not believe in God, how will you be saved? Realize that those who do not

hear The Word of God, and are not prepared to practice it are the children of perdition. There

is nothing that can save man from this adulterous world except the word of God. Faith is the

substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen:

Remember that the Samaritans did not possess The Holy Spirit. But when the

Samaritan woman told them about Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Messiah, and when Our Lord

Jesus Christ met the Samaritans what did they say?

The Holy Oil cannot give you faith, you can drink any quantity of the oil, and it will not

give you faith. What is referred to as faith is the word of God, the word of our lord Jesus

Christ. If you believe, assimilate, and practice the words of God, then you have faith. All that

you see physically cannot be faith. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of

things not seen and yet you believe. What is the evidence of things not seen? It is only the

word of our lord Jesus Christ.

TO BELIEVE IS TO BE SAVED

You have been told that God is now on earth but you still gaze at the sky. You are told

that our lord Jesus Christ indwells you, he is in your house, and that he is everywhere, but you

do not believe unless you see him physically. All those who believe fervently in these words

are saved. Do not believe that money can give you faith, or that man can bestow faith on you.

It is only the word of God that can endow any person with faith. What is causing trouble and

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confusion in the world is lack of belief in The Word of God. And it is only believing in the

word of God that will make this world a perfect place for all. For it is fulfilled in every one

according to the proportion of faith he possesses. When those two spies were sent to Jericho

to spy and return to give their report, if they had no faith in their God, the children of Israel

would not have made any attempt to go to Jericho. But when one was giving the report

subjectively, the other discouraged him and gave a report such that would minister faith to

the hearers. Now if somebody tells you that you are worried by witchcraft, you believe and

become weak. If you are told you are dying, you believe and die also. But if you are told that

you will live eternally, you begin to argue that even Our Lord Jesus Christ did not live

eternally, and that no person has eternal life. As you begin to fear death and so you die, who

is to blame? If you are told that you will no longer be sick, you start to argue that you have

been sick from birth; that you always suffer from malaria. I am taking you up and you are

dragging yourself down. Can you realize that you have no faith?

Every time you require the father to place his hands on your head or touch your head.

How is that beneficial to you? I want to touch the hem of your garment." of what use is that to you? Or you ask for the thick, white oil, what is the use of it to you? Or I want to have private

audience with the father.

Why is that necessary? Faith comes through hearing the word, what word? The word of

our lord Jesus Christ. And that is why you are invited to hear this gospel. When you hear that

there is no witchcraft, no mermaid, no apparition, no concoction, and that nothing can kill

any person, and you believe fervently, it means you believe and you are free. But when you

are told to go, your infirmity is healed, your poverty is taken away and all your problems are

solved, someone will surreptitiously advice you not to listen because God helps those who

help themselves. There is someone somewhere who consults oracles very well and he will

dictate what your trouble is, with a view to solving it, and if you disobey the instructions of

God and follow him, does this behavior of yours show you have faith?

DO NOT TOY WITH THE WORD OF GOD

Who do you think is responsible for all the wonderful work you witness here? It is said,

in the beginning was the word, the word was with God, and the word was God. It is the word

that has done everything in the world. Do not toy with the word of God. Always come to listen

to the word of God; and any gospel you hear, assimilate, comply yourself with it and practice

it.

HEAR THE WORDS OF GOD AND PREACH TO OTHERS

This Gospel is not meant for only you. But what you have heard, preach to others who

are not as fortunate as yourself, and as many as will listen to The Word you impart to them

will also have life. Our Lord Jesus Christ was using earthly situations to illustrate heavenly

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situations. The five loaves of bread which our lord Jesus Christ used to feed five thousand

persons, were not bread per se, (mark 6:37-43/ Luke 9:13-17) but symbolized the word of God.

Because after they have eaten to their fill, there were gathered up twelve baskets of the

fragments that remained. That is to say after you have heard that apparition, juju,

concoction, witchcraft are not in existence, and that only God exists, and you believe and you

are satisfied that you are saved, you will then go and impart such a belief to those who still

believe in such diabolical things. It is always a pitiful situation to observe that those who

profess to be real Brotherhood when they go to receive The Father's blessing, after The Father

had blessed them with prayers and has told them, "Go, all is well," they will still sit back and want to see The Father privately. The gospel says faith comes by hearing the word, what

word?

The word of Christ. All those who always want to see the father privately do not hear

the word of God and therefore they have no faith. That is why Our Lord Jesus Christ says the

Children of God hear The Word of God but you do not hear because you are of the world. (John

8:47) The Word of God is like a lamp set upon a hill, which cast its brightness to the

surrounding areas.

LISTEN TO THE WORDS OF GOD AND BELIEVE IN THEM

Even though you do not hear The Word of God yet someone who is outside this Hall,

who believes and puts these words into practice is saved. But you shall remain here for years

without complying yourself with any instructions of The Gospel as given. Right now a great

many o people have repented of their sins having heard these gospels and read even one of

our pamphlets, but you remain here for many years, indulging in all acts of sin, which means

that you neither hear The Word of God nor do you have faith. From this year onward, it is

incumbent upon the children of God to hear the words of God. Whosoever hears the words of

God has faith. Always open your ears and listen to the word of God preached to you, give full

concentration, empty your heart, open your ears and eyes and always focus your attention

on the gospel, the gospel which is being delivered to you. It does not matter whether you have

the ability to practice the gospel but you must first sit down quietly and listen to the sermon

preached. During the sermon, everybody should sit in absolute humility to receive the word

of God. During such an occasion do not converse with any person, do not make any inquiry,

and do not move about and do not move in and out of the building, and do not disturb others;

but always listen to the word of God attentively. Concentrate your attention on the father

and receive the word of life. This is faith and faith comes from hearing the word of God.

IT IS BETTER TO HEAR THE WORD OF GOD THAN TO SERVE TABLES

Do you remember the story of Martha and her sister Mary? When Our Lord Jesus Christ

visited them at their house and Mary sat at the feet of Christ hearing The Word of God.

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Martha was encumbered about with much serving, seeking and preparing food, which the

visitors would eat. She abandoned The Word of God but engaged herself in finding food for

The Lord. In spite of this she was very much exasperated with her sister since she was serving

alone and so she went to Our Lord Jesus Christ and said, "Lord do you not care that my sister has left me alone to serve in the kitchen? Bid her therefore to come and assist me." Our Lord Jesus Christ called her, "Martha, Martha, you are careful and troubled about many things, but one thing is needful and Mary has chosen that good part which shall not be taken away from

her." (Luke 10:38-42)

From that time on, have you heard anything about Martha? It is only Mary that you

always hear about. She was the person who attended with the Mother of Our Lord Jesus Christ

during the crucifixion while the name of Martha is lost in oblivion and sank in the limbo of

time. Who visited the sepulcher, it was Mary. Who went to the sepulcher on the resurrection

morning? It was Mary. It is very expedient for everyone to hear the word of God. If you have

not been able to do any other thing or practice the gospel of God in the past, from this

Pentecostal period, listen to all the gospels of God. Do not ask why, and do not argue, do not

bandy words with any person because of the gospel, do not sleep and do not converse. But

whether or not you are able to practice the gospel is one thing, but the first requirement is

that you should first of all listen to the word of God. When the word of God falls on the

ground it breaks the mighty stones but when it rises up, it perfects his will. The Second

Lesson will now be read. Listen attentively; open your ears and hearts. Those who are sleeping

and dozing should wake up and listen to the lesson.

SECOND BIBLE LESSON: JOHN 4:42

And said unto the woman, now we believe not because of thy sayings: for we have heard Him

ourselves and we know that this is indeed The Christ, The Savior of the world.

Brethren have you heard that? When you pray to God to heal the infirmities of a person

so that he may believe in you, does it mean that if his sickness is healed he will believe in

God? Or you pray that God should make the barren woman to be pregnant so that she may

believe God. What evidence do you have that when she is pregnant she will believe in God?

I WAS BLIND NOW I SEE

Why did that blind man not believe in Our Lord Jesus Christ? This man was blind from

his birth, but when he was told to go and wash in the pool of Siloam so that his sight may be

restored to him, why did he not believe and carry out the directive? Our Lord Jesus Christ

spoke, he spat on the ground and made clay of the spittle and anointed the eyes of the blind

man and told him to go and wash in the pool of Siloam. When he washed, he received his

sight. When the Jews saw that he had received his sight, they asked him, "How were your eyes

opened?" He told them a man who was called Jesus Christ healed him. They further asked him

how he was cured. He told them that the man called Jesus made clay and anointed his eyes

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and ordered him to go to the pool of Siloam to wash, and when he washed he received his

sight. They asked him where He was, and he could not answer, but they accused Our Lord

Jesus Christ of not being from God because He did not keep the Sabbath Day. Others

questioned how a sinner could perform such a miracle, and there was division among them.

However after they had uttered many blasphemous words against Our Lord Jesus Christ, and

a prolonged argument between the Jews on one hand and the blind man and his parents on

the other, they called the man who was blind and told him to give God the praise for, "We

know that this man is a sinner." He answered and said. "Whether a sinner or not I know not: one thing I know is that whereas I was blind now I see." (John 9:1-25)

POSSESSION OF FAITH REQUIRES NO CONDITION

They asked him again: What did He do to you? How did He open your eyes? He retorted,

"I have already told you and you did not hear wherefore would you hear again? Will you also

be His disciples? Then they reviled him, saying, "You are His disciple, but we are Moses'

disciples." They told him further that they know Moses because God spoke unto Moses, as for

this fellow, we know not from when He is. Then the man answered them: Why herein is a

marvelous thing that you know not from whence He is and yet He had opened my eyes. Now

we know that God heareth not sinners, but if any man be a worshipper of God and he does

His will, him will He hear. They drove him away saying, "You were altogether born in sin and

do you teach us?" (John 9:26-34)

When Our Lord Jesus Christ heard that he was cast out, and when He found him, even

though he could no longer recognize Our Lord Jesus Christ, He asked him, "do you believe in

The Son of God?" From this you will realize that faith comes from hearing The Word, which

word, The Word of Our Lord Jesus Christ, The Word of God. If you induce somebody with

money, he will not have faith that will not make him have faith. There is nothing that you can

do to anybody to have faith, but if you preach the word of God to him and he hears the word,

he will have faith.

DO YOU BELIEVE IN THE SON OF GOD?

Our Lord Jesus then asked the man who was blind whether he believes in The Son of

God. He answered saying, "Who is The Son of God that I may believe in Him? It is not

surprising that The Lord who caused him to receive his sight was right before him yet he

could not recognize Christ, and he asked Christ, "who is The Son of God so that I should

believe in Him?" (John 9:35-36) Your argument that if you pray for the sick to recover, he will worship God, as his Father is not tenable at all. Our Lord Jesus Christ told him you have both

seen him, and I standing here am he. The man then acknowledged that he believed in Him,

and then worshipped Him. The action of making him receive his sight did not make him

know and worship God. (John 9:37-38) Whether healing a person of his infirmities, or having

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a long life does not prompt any person to know and worship God, but rather when you hear

the words proceeding out of the mouth of God and you believe fervently in the words, you

will have faith.

HE IS CHRIST THE SAVIOR OF THE WORLD

If you pray to God to open your eyes that you will believe in Him, even if He opens your

eyes you will not believe in Him. When you are lame, you pray to God that should He make it

possible for you to walk in your life, you will believe in Him. If He makes you walk and even

run, you will still not believe in Him except you are destined to believe in Him. When you

have a very difficult case in the court and you plead with God that if He caused you to win the

case, you will believe in Him if you win the case that will not make you believe in Him. The

first group of people who sought to kill Our Lord Jesus Christ were those who were healed by

Him. They did that because they did not hear the word of God, neither did they believe in God.

You cannot stand firm in this kingdom of God if you do not hear the word of God. You

have heard what has been read to you. It is said that the Samaritan woman went into the

village, leaving her pot, and told the people "to come and see The Man who has told me all

things that I ever did". Is not this The Christ? But when they went out of the city and saw Our Lord Jesus Christ they testified saying, "Woman, now we believe, not because of your sayings

for we heard Him ourselves and know that this is indeed The Christ, the savior of the world.

THOU SHALT NOT TEMPT THE LORD YOUR GOD

When you preach The Word to somebody and he neither listens to you nor believes in

you, it means he does not believe in you. Somebody has given you a condition that if you

build a house for him then he will believe in God, if you build that house for him he will not

believe in God. A woman says if you wed her in the church, she will believe in God and serve

Him devotedly and diligently, even if you wed inside the church, inside water, or in the

hades, she will not believe in God. Somebody argues that if he will never be sick again, if his

children no longer die, if he has money, and he will no longer be poor and wretched, and if

everything will be well with him, even if he is in the most excellent condition of life, he will

not believe in God. Whenever The Word Of God Is Lacking, Then Faith Also Is Lacking. The

Reason The Entire World Is Lacking In Faith Is That They Are Found Wanting In The Words Of

God, How Can They Have Peace? How can they call Him in whom they have not believed? How

can they believe in Him of whom they have not heard and how shall they hear without a

preacher? And how shall they preach except they be sent? (Rom 10:14-15). If Our Lord Jesus

Christ did not go to the Samaritans to preach to them, how would they have heard and

believed in God? Now that He has gone to preach to them this is the reason for their

declaration: woman, now we believe not because of your saying for we have heard him

ourselves and we know that this is indeed the Christ, the savior of the world.

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A TREE IS KNOWN BY ITS FRUITS

Have you been told that He made bread for them? Have you been told that He healed

their infirmities? Have you heard that He prepared food for them or that He gave them

fishes? But you are told that He imparted The Word of God and they listened attentively to

The Word of God and from there they believed in Him. Do not start looking for God anywhere

else. You are asking questions as to what He is, how He could be described, how He should be

regarded. These questions arise because you do not believe in Him. It is said a tree is known

by its fruits.

You can determine what a person is through the words he speaks, for by their words ye

shall know them. You can identify Satan by the words he speaks, in the same token you can

identify a child of God from the word he speaks. Without the word it will be impossible to

know God. And what is called faith, is hearing the words, which words? The word of God. That

was why our lord Jesus Christ commissioned his disciples to go and preach the word of God to

people and whosoever believes and is baptized is saved, but whoever does not believe will be

damned. And these signs shall follow them that believe in my name. In my name they shall

cast out devils; they shall speak in new tongues and they shall take up serpents; and if they

drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall

recover. (Mark 16:15-18).

THOSE WHO LOVE GOD WILL KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS

Who are those who believe? They are those who hear The Word of God, and through

hearing The Word they believe. When you are told to knock you head on the ground and

converse with your God and you do the same then you believe. As soon as you leave this Hall,

a visioner will tell you that apparition and witchcraft are worrying you, and you accept what

he tells you because you do not believe in God. Somebody comes to tell you that something is

moving in your body and that he knows the person who will remove it, because it was put

there by wizards, and you believe and go to tell your wife that you had already told her that

something hidden was responsible for your waist pains. A man can enslave himself to

whatsoever he has yielded himself to. You confess that you believed in the preparation of

concoction, but you are no more influenced by it. But if you were to believe in the almighty

God, you would have loved and kept his commandments.

IF YOU REJECT GOD YOU WILL ACCEPT SATAN

It is a truism that nothing diabolical exists, whether charm or talisman or concoction,

whether ghost or even man. The only thing that exists is Our Jehovah God and His Christ. It is

a surprising thing that a visioner should deceive you even right here and he tells you he has

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seen the witchcraft field and he demands two thousand naira from you because your house

has been completely sold to wizards.

Does it mean that the visioner cannot be harmed by wizards and witches? It is what has

been predestined for you because you have refused the wisdom of truth in order to be saved,

for this reason, God therefore sent you strong delusions to believe a lie and perish. (2

Thessalonians 2:11-12) All those who continue to complain that they are deceived, that they

are defrauded, that they are deceived into building a house for somebody, do so because they

were destined to do those things because they have refused to accept The Word of God and

have life.

REMEMBER THOSE WHO PREACH THE WORD OF GOD

It is said that you should remember them, which have rule over you, who have spoken

The Word of God unto you. In your own case you only remember the person who gives you

vision that you are worried by witchcraft and that your wife seeks a way of killing you and

you believe in him, that is why you bestow all your wealth on him. Do you realize that all

visioners who see ghosts and wizards are unbelievers and enemies of God? All those who in

their dreams see how a person is killed, or a coffin, are witnesses of Satan. All those who

teach and preach about the existence of witchcraft, apparition, mermaid and concoction and

that God helps those who help themselves are agents of Satan. Any person who threatens you

that he is in the sun, in the moon, in the sea, or that he belongs to any secret society and that

he has been attending meetings in India or has been doing one thing or the other is a

messenger of Satan, and there is nothing in him. Any person who comes to threaten you that

he is a murderer and that he has been killing people and will kill you also leave him alone for

he is an agent of Satan.

If anybody tells you that he is a wizard, that he has killed all his children and his

brothers and his relations and he will kill you through his witchcraft also, what he is saying is

a lie, for he is a demented fellow. I have warned you that there is nothing called preparation

of concoction, witchcraft, mermaid, and apparition, charms which exist; only Jehovah God

and his Christ exists.

YOU COMPLAIN BECAUSE YOU DO NOT HAVE THE WORDS OF GOD

Wizards do not worry you, apparition does not worry you, mermaid does not worry

you, human beings do not worry you, preparation of concoction or charm does not worry

you, but what really worries you is your unbelief. Your lack of hearing the word of God is

your problem. Why do you continue to acclaim that which does not exist? Feel your pulses

and the pressure in your bodies if there has not been a lot of improvements in your bodies.

Those who were sick, those who have been complaining about witchcraft, mermaid, and

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apparition, preparation of concoction and other problems, all such complaints have subsided

completely. When you complain that your business has liquidated, for lack of honest

partners; that your wife has eloped with another man, that your children are sickly, that you

are jobless, that you are very sick and weak, and that you have no money, you have

marshaled all these complaints because you do not have The Word of God. The Golden Text

will now be read.

GOLDEN TEXT: LUKE 6:47-48

Whosoever cometh to Me, and heareth My sayings, and doeth them I will show you whom he

is like: He is like that man which built an house and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a

rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house and could not

shake it: for it was founded upon a rock.

A MAN WHO HAS THE WORD OF GOD IS LIKE A HOUSE BUILT UPON A HILL

Brethren, hear what is read to you. It is said faith comes by hearing The Word of Our

Lord Jesus Christ. He says anyone who follows me and listens to my words, assimilates the

words, and practices them, I will show you whom he is like: he is like a man who builds his

house upon a rock and when the rains descends, and the floods came, and the winds blew and

beat upon that house, it did not fall, for it was founded upon a rock. Whosoever does hear The

Word of God and believes, will not complain that he is worried by witchcraft, by mermaid, by

apparition, sickness, poverty, hardship, none of these things will worry him, and he will be

very courageous because he has been well-ballasted as if founded on a rock.

Even if you want to tie him, or fire at him with a gun or with an automatic rifle, or a jet

bomber, or to put him into fire, or to throw him inside the sea, he will not be perturbed

because he has been well groomed with The Word of God. Why should he fear when he knows

that the God he worships is omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient? We have a spiritual

chorus, which says, "I have put on Christ, I have earnest hope, no matter the condition of the wind, the stone will not be moved, for we are saved." any person who listens to the word of

God, believes in it and has faith in it, has no problems at all. He is saved if he practices the

word of God. Such a person has no complaint whether about the rain, or sun, about sickness,

or death, poverty or hardship, hatred or persecution, worries from apparition, or mermaid or

witchcraft or preparation of concoction. He has no problems because he has overcome

everything.

GOD PROMISED THAT HE WILL NOT FORSAKE US NOR WILL HE FAIL US

But in your own case, you do not want to listen to The Word of God, you do not want to

listen to His Teachings, you do not believe in God and you do not want to practice The Word of

God. What then are you going to preach to the people? And so, Brethren as we are here the

purpose is that you may receive the word of God and be saved. You must therefore open your

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ears and eyes and hearts. Do not sleep; but listen to The Words of God. Concentrate on these

words so that you may have life.

Whether you have a house to live in or not, whether you have money with which to

maintain yourself or not, whether you are sick or well, whether you have problems or not,

whether you are beset with difficulties or persecution, or sickness or any encumbrances,

forget about them and focus your full attention on The Word of God; assimilate, practice and

have life. He has promised that in the midst of any temptation, He will provide a way of

escape that you may be able to bear the temptation. It is said God knows how to deliver the

Godly out of temptation and to reserve the unjust unto the Day of Judgment to be punished.

(Romans 3:5-8). And He has promised that He will never fail you nor forsake you. Those who

believe fervently in His words have no problems.

WITHOUT THE WORD OF GOD THERE IS NOTHING MADE THAT WAS MADE

If you regard God's business as your business, he will also regard your business as

his business. Heaven and earth will pass away, but The Word of God will never pass away

until all are consummated. (Matthew 5:18) He has promised us eternal life, peace, and joy, we

are therefore not left comfortless as orphans are. That is why I say that it is incumbent upon

you to, from now on, to practice The Word of Christ. As soon as you hear the gospel touching

down, you should put it into practice. Can you realize that if it were not so, something would

happen? What happened in 1977? Those who were not firm in faith and did not believe

fervently in The Word of God had their soutanes burnt; and they withdrew completely, while

others backslid. But in your own case because you are firm in The Words of God, instead of

withdrawing or backsliding, you rather stood firm and increased from strength to strength.

People realized the power and strength of God. I am telling you that money could not have

done this work even though you complain that you have no money to do The Work of God.

The work in this Kingdom could not be accomplished with money. It neither requires houses

nor television nor any other type of thing. It requires only one thing and that is the word of

God. Life emanates from him, faith comes from him and all the virtues of God emanate from

him. Faith comes from him, and all the virtues of God emanate from the word of God.

Without the word of God there is nothing made that was made. Put on the word of God as

an armor and breast plate. Any day you do not listen to the word of God you have lost a great

deal. There is an adage, which says markets do not pass a man but the word passes. Once the

word of God is spoken it will come to pass, and will last forever. We should always regard the

word of God as our duty and our bonafide property.

Brethren, I do not wish to be tedious unto you, one stroke of the cane is sufficient for the

wise. Those who have ears let them hear. May God Bless His Holy Words. Amen

THANK YOU FATHER

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MERCY: THE SOURCE OF SALVATION

FIRST BIBLE LESSON: MATTHEW 5:7

Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

SECOND BIBLE LESSON: MATTHEW 18:35

So likewise shall my Heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not

everyone his brother their trespasses.

GOLDEN TEXT: JAMES 2:13

For he shall have judgment without mercy that hath showed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth

against judgment.

BE MERCIFUL TO ONE ANOTHER

Brethren it is said that the downfall of man emanates from his works and ways.

Inasmuch as you are not merciful unto your fellow man, then do not expect to obtain mercy.

So long as you are not merciful, you have completely perished. I do not say you will perish but you have already perished. Be it a little child, so long as you refuse to be merciful unto

this child, if you refuse to forgive his trespasses, then you should completely count yourself

out because you shall obtain none of these from others.

It is beneficial for one to come in here in humility, and digest the words given here and

get them stamped in one's mind. Be you a millionaire, a father, mother, adult or a child,

ponder seriously over this gospel. Do not allow yourself to be misled or deceived by anybody

that you will be saved if you do not practice this gospel. Therefore, from this moment, forgive

those who trespass against you, do not be merciless towards your fellow man, do not impute

sins against anyone but be forgiving at all times.

This gospel can save you and create a lot of wonderful things in your life. It is on this

note that you are seriously advised to practice it. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but not

an iota of the words of God shall pass away unfulfilled (Matt 5:18). It is said that blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy. Henceforth if you decide to be merciful and

forgiving unto one another, then you should consider yourself saved.

But if you refuse to forgive but you rather revenge the wrong done against you, then

believe that you have already perished. Inasmuch as you are not merciful unto your

brethren, you can never obtain mercy from God.

There is no other way of getting to God aside from practicing this gospel. The Israelites

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preferred to be guided by the law, hence they all derailed from the path of rectitude and

consequently they perished. But the Publicans who had no law binding them, acted on what

they felt was righteous and they were accordingly saved. If you are in the habit of forgiving

one another, not imputing sins on others, be you learned or not, baptized or not, you stand to

be saved. This statement that heaven helps those who help themselves is here explained. All

those who are merciful unto others bring salvation unto themselves. All those who are not

merciful however bring condemnation unto themselves. A wise man sees danger afar and

takes precaution, but a stupid man waits till the danger gets to him. You must, through this

gospel, be cautious. Let this be your source of salvation.

NO RIGHTEOUS MAN ON EARTH

I am now telling you the whole truth in heaven and on earth that the only set of people

who shall escape the wrath of God are those who practice The Word of God. If you see two or

three persons in this Kingdom who are saved, then know that they are those who have

adhered to this gospel. The scriptures have clearly stated that there is no righteous person on

earth. If you read through Romans Chapter 3: 10-11:

"As it is written, there is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth,

there is none that seeketh after God." You will realize that right from the days of Adam to this present age, there is no righteous one. We have all derailed from the path of rectitude. I want

you to imagine how we can be saved if He, out of His infinite mercy, does not forgive our sins.

Just as the sand is not without particles, so is man not without sin. This is what the statement

that we are saved by grace implies.

If you refrain from all manner of sins like stealing, killing, etc., yet you are not

merciful and forgiving, you have perished. If you fast for a number of days, pray all through

your life, such does not save you. But once you are forgiving and merciful, you stand to be

saved. No man on earth possesses this wisdom. It is only God who has this wisdom. As long as

you do not forgive others, you have perished. If you need to be saved, forgive all forms of sin

and receive your salvation. The scripture advises that if we confess our sins, God has the right

to forgive and cleanse us of these sins (1 John 1:9), but if we do not confess them He will not forgive us. A lot of us face great tribulations because we do not forgive others their

trespasses, neither are we merciful.

A lot of you ponder why certain tribulations should come your way; you believe that

you have never stolen, killed, told a lie, yet you face different kinds of problems. Search

yourself properly if there is any of your brethren who has offended you, and whose trespass

you have refused to forgive. If there is any such, then quickly forgive such a person and

obtain your salvation. If you decide to be merciful and forgiving, it is all to your own benefit.

This is because when you do this, you stand to be saved. When you lack mercy and

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forgiveness, you cannot harm another person but rather, you harm yourself, because you

stand to be condemned.

Judgment has started for quite a long time now. Thus, after reading this gospel, do

not harden your hearts against your offender any more. Henceforth, do not impute sins

against your fellow man, forgive others their trespasses, and be merciful, for in so doing, you

obtain mercy, in The Name of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Amen. If you are not merciful unto

others, you cannot gain entrance into The Kingdom of God, and you stand condemned. With

what would you be saved? It is out of the infinite mercy of God that man is saved; for right

from the days of Adam to this very day, there is no just man on earth. But through the mercy

of God, we have been saved. None deserves the goodness of God because of our

unrighteousness. For this reason, Christ did advise that we should be merciful and

compassionate to one another, just as He is with us. Re-examine the First Lesson.

FIRST BIBLE LESSON: MATTHEW 5:7

Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

IMPUTE NO SIN ON ANOTHER

Let this gospel be very precious to you. If we should print these words in our hearts, we

would realize that we would have no problems in life. Impute no sin on another. This was the

reason why Our Lord Jesus Christ advised that if one should strike you on one cheek, you

should not fight back, but rather, you should turn the other cheek for the person to strike. If

you are asked to walk a mile, you should walk two. Allow the evildoer to have his way for it is

for your own good. (Matt 5:38-41)

Be merciful unto others just as God has been merciful unto you. Show mercy unto your

fellow man, being that you are also a man. Be merciful unto others and do not count sins

against others. Do not begrudge one another, do not quarrel, do not get angry and bear no

false witness against others. In whatsoever you embark upon doing, first think of how

beneficial it will be unto you. Know fully well that there is nothing you can give in

replacement for your soul for inasmuch as you are not merciful unto others your soul is

perished. All the evil vices, which you commit, bring tribulation to you.

THE CAUSE OF YOUR PROBLEMS

All the problems we face affect the spirit, for the flesh has no problem. And you

encounter problems because you are unforgiving. If you are truly seeking for salvation, then

you must always forgive others their trespasses against you. Have you not realized that so

long as you do not forgive others their trespasses, you can never be forgiven? This is the sole

cause of all the problems you encounter. This is why we cannot excel in our endeavors. We

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are merciless and unforgiving. In one of our spiritual choruses, it is asked, how do I cross the

river? The answer is that you should love all your neighbors, for if you do this, you shall

definitely cross the river. Forgive one another's trespasses, no matter how minute or great

the incident may be, try to forgive and you shall surely cross the river.

I am filled with pity for the Churches, Lawyers, Judges, Government Officials,

Herbalists, and all sorts of people who lack mercy and forgiveness. Do you recall what Our

Lord Jesus Christ said to the Pharisees when the disciples ate raw corn from someone's field

on a Sabbath Day? The Pharisees questioned Him why His disciples should do such, He replied

them saying, "Have ye not read what David did when he was an hungered, and they that were

with him, how he entered into the House of God, and did eat the shewbread, which was not

lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priest? Or have

ye not read in the law, how that on the Sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the

Sabbath, and are blameless? But I say unto you that in this place is one greater than the

temple. But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy and not sacrifice; ye would

not have condemned the guiltless. For The Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath Day." (Matt 12:1-8).

Like Christ I seek not after sacrifices, but after mercy. Have you not come to this

realization that all that God requires is mercy? Be merciful and you shall obtain mercy. Have

mercy for one another just as God has mercy on you. You profess to be a Brotherhood, why

then do you lack mercy? Someone would approach you that he has just been retrenched from

work and he cries out his whole heart to you, yet you refuse to be merciful to the person

saying that you have to feed yourself and your family. Then I want to assure you that if you

do this, your life is finished. What shall it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his

soul in hell? (Matt 16:26)

Judgment has now started. You claim to be Obu's child, yet you do not have mercy on

one another. If of a truth you are Obu's child, and you have mercy on one another, you are

free; then shall salvation come to you. Do not come in here to seek for money, child, husband,

or wife. Come with the aim of listening to the gospels, and putting them into practice.

Staying in Brotherhood for a thousand and one days means nothing. As long as you cannot

practice the gospel, all your years are to no avail. Opting out of this fold is of no benefit to you so long as you do not practice the gospel. Re-examine the Second Lesson.

SECOND BIBLE LESSON: MATTHEW 18:35

So likewise shall my Heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not

everyone his brother their trespasses.

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THE KEY OF LIFE AND DEATH

Brethren, the above reveals the key of life and death. Inasmuch as you do not forgive or

show mercy to one another, you cannot obtain mercy, neither can your trespasses be

forgiven by God. The teachings, which you receive, can never be found anywhere, the world

over. Therefore, we should try to practice these teachings so that it may be well with us. I did

tell you about a Bishop who had very many churches. I want to use this case to illustrate the

earthly situations so that you may really understand this gospel. The Bishop married very

many wives, and at a certain time, one of his adherents committed adultery with one of his

wives. The Bishop, on discovery, vowed never to forgive the man. After a while, the Bishop

passed on to the world beyond. There he came across the way that leads to heaven and hell. As

a Bishop, he moved to the gate of heaven, and he was told to go to hell. He introduced himself

as a Bishop but he was told that he was not fit to be a Bishop. He was reminded of how he was

unforgiving on earth. He was further told that if he so desired to go to heaven, he should

return to the earth and settle all problems with his adversaries. He was given a period of

twenty-one days (three weeks) to accomplish that task, after which he would return to the

world beyond and proceed to heaven.

He was returned to earth where he settled all his problems with every person. He

forgave all his adversaries, even the man who committed adultery with his wife. He pardoned

those whom he had excommunicated. Shortly after that the Bishop finally passed away and

he was allowed into God's Kingdom. A very similar case is that of Lazarus and a certain rich

man as recorded in Luke 16:19-31. Now do not wait for anybody to tell you to forsake sin, be merciful and forgiving. You should realize the need for doing these; they are the source of

salvation. However, after reading this gospel, if you still harden your heart, refusing to be

merciful and forgiving, if you perish, your blood shall be on you.

HARDEN NOT YOUR HEART

In the days of Our Lord Jesus Christ, after each sermon, He was always saying that

those who have ears should hear. The question is, how many people have ears? A lot of people

who had passed away have come back, like the Bishop, to tell you what you are expected to do

yet you still harden your heart. What then shall be your excuse as you lose your soul? You

have been told clearly that as long as you do not forgive one another's trespasses, and you are

not merciful to one another, you shall equally obtain no mercy on the last day.

There was a man in Port Harcourt who portrayed himself as God. When he died, he sent

a message to the President of the Women's Association of his church that she should instruct

all the members to get baptized in Brotherhood of the Cross and Star, for in the other world, it

is only those who are baptized into Brotherhood who have peace. That Brotherhood of the

Cross and Star members are ever dancing, singing and rejoicing, all robed in immaculate

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white. That she should hasten up and pass the message across to the members of his church

because he was seriously tormented.

But this woman, considering her position as the president of the Women's Association

in her denomination, made up her mind not to relay the message to the congregation. Not

quite long after she made up her mind, she was visited by a very serious illness. And again,

the man appeared to her and told her that if she did not hasten up to deliver the message, she

would die of the illness. Fortunately for her, some Brotherhood members in the area sent a

letter to the people of that place that they would be visiting the village and so she used that

opportunity to inform the members of her revelation. That very day, when the members of

Brotherhood of the Cross and Star visited the area, two hundred and fifty people were

baptized.

A lot of you do complain that all through your years in Brotherhood, you have not

gained anything. If your claim is true, search your conscience whether you have begrudged

your neighbor, whether you have been merciless or unforgiving. If these are true, why then

do you receive benefits from God? Does a man of God get angry? Does he pronounce curses

on another person? Does he quarrel, frown, fight, or sue another man to court? Does a man of

God commit any form of atrocity? In spite of this, God is still very loving towards you. He

wants us to have a change of mind so that we may be saved. As you read this gospel, is there

anyone whose trespass you have refused to forgive? Is there any with whom you wish to

make peace but you cannot because of your pride? Do not be ashamed because Christ did say

that whosoever denied Him, same shall He deny before His Father and the angels.

Whatsoever sin you have committed, confess it now so that you may be forgiven. Repent

from your sins and forgive one another.

We all have clear records with God, starting from the day we were brought out of our

mother's womb and from the origin of this world. Everyone has a record, which contains his

deeds. Before God, and from that record, we are judged. Search yourself properly from the

day you were baptized into Brotherhood, how many sins have you been able to forsake? Have

you been merciful and forgiving?

You have been instructed not to lie, steal, fornicate, lament, eat meat and fish, get

angry, but to be forgiving. Have you done any of these? Some of you have served some

numbers of years here, have you abstained from any sin? This proves the statement that the

journey from Egypt to Canaan could not have taken more than two days, but it took the

Israelites forty years. Now the world is filled with annoyance. If you are owed, you get angry.

If one testifies to the glory of God, you get angry. If your wife is admired by someone else,

you get angry. You frown at every little thing and you do not even learn to forgive. The

Children of God are very young at heart. When they are wronged, they settle it there and

then, and they do not begrudge any person. When you begrudge and keep referring to what

people have done against you, are you a child of God? FORGIVE AND FORGET. Forget the past

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for we are in the present. Our God is not a God of the past but of present. For this reason He

said, "Blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy." Our Lord Jesus Christ has said that if you do not forgive others, your trespasses will not be forgiven. If you go through

Matthew 23, you will have the understanding why He made this statement. Re-examine the

Golden Text.

GOLDEN TEXT: JAMES 2:13

For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth

against judgment.

THE NEED TO BE MERCIFUL

Judgment has no mercy on whosoever has no mercy for his brother. Being merciful is

the greatest. Whosoever is merciful unto his fellow brother cannot be judged, but whosoever

lacks mercy for his brother obtains no mercy during judgment. Do you not realize that with

the measure you mete, same shall be measured unto you again? For this reason Our Lord

Jesus Christ told Peter to put back his sword in its sheath for he who kills with the sword must

surely die by the sword. (Matt 26:52)

Whosoever hardens his heart against his brother, must equally not obtain mercy. If

you are merciful you shall in turn obtain mercy. Therefore judgment has no mercy on

whosoever is not merciful; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment. This is why we are told to

be merciful. Brethren, it is said that a stroke of the cane is sufficient unto the wise. Let he

who has ears hear what The Holy Spirit has imparted to the world. May God bless His Holy

Words. Amen.

THANK YOU FATHER

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SEARCH FOR GOD, BEWARE OF MONEY

FIRST LESSON: LUKE 12:22-23

And He said unto His disciples; therefore I say unto you, take no thought for your life, what

ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on. The life is more than meat, and the

body is more than raiment.

SECOND LESSON: LUKE 14:33

So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my

disciple.

GOLDEN TEXT: LUKE 6:20

And He lifted up His eyes on His disciples, and said, blessed be ye poor: for yours is The

Kingdom of God.

Money does not give life. The poor shall inherit The Kingdom of God. We came to the

world with nothing and shall return with nothing. You are completely empty without The

Spirit of God. If you love money-you are an adulterer and a fornicator. Fasting solves

problems. Brotherhood is the last refuge for mankind.

This is a message to the whole world. All material things shall come to an end. If you

reject the things of this world, heavenly virtues will be given unto you. The heavenly things

are love, patience, meekness, etc., while the things of the world are lies, robbery, quarreling,

fighting, etc. The flesh has its own ways, if you do not abide by its ways, you cannot possess

material things. If you possess heavenly virtues, you are free from all problems. A rich man

who speaks or seeks for the material things cannot inherit The Kingdom of God. Our Lord

Jesus Christ confirmed this in the scriptures. Watch carefully, if two persons are at

loggerheads or disagreement, it is not for God’s Work, but for material things. Man really

worships money. When he cannot get this money he resorts to killing, quarreling, telling lies,

practicing all vices, etc. People in this group do not joke with money no matter their

relationship with you. People like this would always want people to give them and they

themselves would not give out the one in their stock. All those that love the material things of

the world deserve sympathy because they lack The Holy Spirit. You commit all forms of

atrocities simply to get money. A woman becomes a harlot because of money. A man kills for

the sake of money. Those that seek for material things cannot do The Work of God in this

generation and the generation to come. If you are still thinking of the material wealth you

have no share in this Kingdom. If you have The Spirit of God in you, you will realize that you

came empty-handed and so will you return. Money in itself does not give life and can never

give life.

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Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from God. The Spirit of

God gives life. It is life. It is everything unto every man. If you go according to His dictates,

those things He has, becomes yours. If you devote yourself to The Work of God, you will not

have any problem. You will be free and will have everlasting life. Money, land houses, cars,

etc., are somebody’s properties and they do not have anything to do with God. If you believe

in God, He provides everything for you; solves all your problems. All the evils you commit in

the world are all for money. “Trouble not your heart for what ye shall eat. Is life not more

important than food? Or not more than raiment?” It is because of money that you and your

soul are lost completely.

If you are given $10.00 dollars to buy an article, and that article is $5.00 dollars you

will put $5.00 dollars in your pocket and lie that you bought it for $10.00 dollars, you have

failed since you are carnally minded. God helps you, and you help yourself. How can you help

yourself? You bought an item for $3.00 dollars and sell it for $10.00 dollars, how would you

practice The Word of God? Where is Judas Iscariot today? Where is his position? See a man

who was God’s treasurer, but for the love of money, he sold Our Lord Jesus Christ only for 30

pieces of silver, in spite of the heavy amount in his treasury. Did he make use of this money?

Again Joseph was sold by his brothers to an Egyptian and the money was shared among them.

How much was the money? At the end were they not under his control or ruler ship? What

were their gains? It is true that you do not know what you lose in looking or searching for

these carnal things instead of looking and searching for God. What is the wisdom in

committing all the atrocities that God says you should not do? Before man can be saved,

today’s gospel must be practiced.

If you do The Work of God, there will be no hunger. Have you examined the wordings of

the prayer “Give us this day, our daily bread.” (Meaning the words of God, not food to eat). If

you seek more than the wordings of this prayer, you are a lawbreaker. Blessed are the poor in

spirit for theirs is The Kingdom of Heaven. You that want to be a rich man, have you heard

that? I feel sorry for the world because they have left The Ways of God. The flesh does not give

life. Whatever position you hold in The Kingdom – Pastor, Christ’s Student, Servant, Bishops,

Evangelist, etc., if you do not take your mind out of the worldly things you are lost. If you love money you have committed adultery, and the love of God is not in you. If you are not

satisfied with the position God has kept you, you have committed fornication. When God tells

you that you should not steal, you go and steal and because of disobedience you die, who will

spend or enjoy your stolen money? When there was no money, no houses, no garments to put

on, no electricity, and all inventions by white brethren, was there no life? Was life not

enjoyable? The water is poisonous, light, everything is adulterated. The peace, love, harmony

that you want hangs on this gospel. Since we are looking for material things that is why we

face problems. Now is the time that everybody will look for God. Anybody that is in spirit

does not eat much food. Food is the worst enemy of man. If you face any problem

immediately you do fasting, that problem must go. There is nothing fasting cannot do. Let

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us seek for the gospel. Seek for God, for when you have these virtues you have life. The

things of this world is our hindrance. You do the work of man, so that you have what to eat.

The day that you will be transferred from this world you will have nothing to eat.

Brotherhood is your village, your Father and Mother, your Kingdom, hence you have to put all

what you have in it, and anything besides this is null and void. The Way of God is not the way

of making money or seeking for money. It is not a profit-making venture. Forsake all the

material things of the world and follow God, so that you may have eternal life. There are two

ways for it. If you want to be clean, be clean, and if you want to be dirty, be dirty. What you

like in your life is what kills you. If you do not forsake all what you have, you cannot follow

God. God knows our ways, knows everything about you. He wants a person that will do His

Work in truth. He does not work by the dictates of man. Work for Him in earnest, at the

fullness of time, He will give you all that you need in life. The Kingdom of God belongs to

those that are ready to forsake the mundane things of this world. A word is enough for the

wise. Let him that has ears hear. May God Bless His Holy words. Amen!

THANK YOU FATHER

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IF YOU PRACTICE THE WORD OF GOD, HE WILL DELIVER YOU OUT

OF TEMPTATION

First Bible Lesson: Matthew 24:11-12:

And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. And because iniquity shall

abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

Second Bible Lesson: 2 Timothy 3:2:

For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers,

disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy.

Golden Text: Revelation 3:10:

Because Thou hast kept The Word of My Patience, I also will keep Thee from the hour of

temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.

This is an important sermon. It is very expedient for every person to come here all the

time. If you miss my presence for a second, you are eluded of a very important sermon. Don't

you realize that this is the time when every person should draw nigh unto God? For if it is so

difficult for the Children of God to be saved, what do you think will be the fate of the people

of the world? Therefore, every person must hold fast to that which he believes. Having

listened to the three lessons, you will comprehend precisely what is transpiring in the world.

The Golden Text, however, is what consoles the Children of God. This epitomizes why the

Children of God should neither tell lies, nor steal, but they should always be

trustworthy. Because what is going on in the world is not a hidden thing but it is what had

been prophesied about. It is what Our Lord Jesus Christ had prophesied that at the end of time

these things will come to pass. And therefore, there should be no arguments about the events

in the world today.

Except the days are shortened, none will be saved (Matthew 24:22) When the disciples

asked saying, "Master, but when shall these things be? And what sign will there be when these things shall come to pass?" (Matthew 24:3). He started listing them out. Those signs were

written and are kept for our own lessons and remembrance that when you see all these signs

manifesting in the world, notwithstanding the circumstances you are put into, you stand

firm by your faith. He had made a very far reaching statement when He said, "And except

those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the Elects' sake those

days shall be shortened."(Matthew 24:22)

This is something, which had never occurred since God created the earth. Observe the

various events taking place in the world. These things have never occurred since the history

of the world. Do you not see what is happening? A brother now leads another brother to

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death. Have you not observed the prevalence of false prophets in the world? Have you not

realized how the love of many has waxed cold? Even within Brotherhood many people have

now resigned from doing that which is good claiming that they have so much, been deceived

by their brothers. And for that reason they are incapacitated to continue in their well doing.

HOLD FAST TO YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS

Would you like to say that all the blasphemies against Brotherhood are relatively new?

Or would you like to say that what is happening in various places are new occurrences? Can

that now show you that The Word of God remains the same and there is no variableness in

Him? When the Children of God read this portion of the Scriptures, they really thank God and

hold fast to their uprightness. This is the time that you should hold tenaciously to your

righteousness and cling to it very strongly. It is likened to somebody doing overtime at his

place of work. You are true witnesses to the fact that if during your ordinary working time,

you are paid $10.00 per hour, when you do any overtime, you will be paid $20.00 per hour. In

the same vein, at this end of time, any person who clings strongly to the truth without

indulging in fornication, and falsehood but refraining from all acts of sinfulness, will be paid

double because he has worked overtime.

IF YOU PRACTICE THE GOSPEL, GOD WILL KEEP YOU FROM TEMPTATION

It will be an occurrence that you will remain in your house and somebody will tell lies

against you. You will walk along the street and somebody will rain blows on you without a

cause. You will stay at home and do that which is good unto others and they will repay you

with a bad coin. No matter what you do to somebody, such a person will not appreciate it. And

you have heard what is read to you: It says, "For men shall be lovers of their own selves,

covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy." And He

has promised that: "Because you have kept The Word of my patience, I also will keep you from

the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the

earth."

BEHOLD THE ERA OF TEMPTATION

Do you not realize the fact that without The Father no person would have been saved?

Because there is temptation everywhere, inside your house, inside your room, at your farm,

along the streets, inside the church. There is no place you go to, and you will not meet with

temptation. Your wife is a stumbling block to you. Your husband is a stumbling block to you.

Your father, or children, or friends, or landlord or tenants have constituted themselves

into stumbling blocks unto you. And that is why a spiritual chorus has it that, "If you cling to God, you will always live to be conquerors." I always think of any person who does not draw

nigh unto God, what is going to save him at this end of time? There is nothing whatsoever

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that can save any person out of this temptation apart from Our Lord Jesus Christ. Stop

asking God to give you money, or car or any other thing. Even if God has given you all these

things, what are you going to do about these high temptations?

THE FULFILLMENT OF THE SCRIPTURES

This is not the time for any person to ask God for anything at all. But it is the time to

hold fast to The Teachings of God. Because it is said, "For verily I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be

fulfilled." (Matthew 5:18) The Scriptures say, "And many false prophets shall arise, and shall deceive many and because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold." People will always come to deceive you to believe that somebody plots to kill you. They will threaten you

that your wife plans to kill you. Or that your child wants to kill you. Or that your friend wants

to kill you. Have you not seen how iniquities have multiplied on earth today? An evil spirit

will come and tell you, that the man sitting down there is a wizard. And the next day,

somebody comes to your house and tells you that he had seen you in a dream as a wizard, and

that you should not go to his house again. Whenever you find things where they should not

be, really know that the time is drawing nigh. Temptation is right on your doorstep.

BE QUICK TO HEAR AND SLOW TO SPEAK (JAMES 1:19)

Remember what He had said, that He will tempt the world and shake up the earth. This

is not the time you require any person to appreciate what you have done to him. This is not

the time for you to look for love and praises from any person. But it is the time when every

person must hold fast to His righteousness.

It should not be given that any person lends ears to any other person in the world,

rather he should listen to The Spirit. If we put on The Word of God as armor, we shall indeed

conquer. Even if your father speaks to you, answer him not. If your mother talks to you do

not reply. If your wife speaks to you, do not retort. If your children talk to you, do not retort.

No matter what the Pastor enjoins you to do, reply him not. Even if all the members of the

congregation begin to talk about you, do not retort.

YOU ONLY DO THAT WHICH YOU WERE PREDESTINATED TO DO

Hold fast to The Words of Our Lord Jesus Christ, because this is a perilous

time. Whatever you put your hands to doing, do not accomplish such things that people may

praise you. But do it because it is commensurate with what He had given to you to do. It is

never the pleasure of any person to commit any act of iniquity. It is not the love of anybody to

tell lies. Whatever is going on, no person is in the light about it. All are the manifestations of all those things, which were written and kept. Until you begin to execute these functions, you

will not realize yourselves. But when you read the scriptures you will soon remember that

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these things were already postulated by Our Lord Jesus Christ. That is why the Children of

God are never exasperated. They do not entertain any fears. Whatever comes to them every

day, they remain very joyous. These things you have been told that whatever somebody has

done to you, you should not be infuriated.

No matter what your wife and children do to you, no matter what the people do at your

place of work, do not be infuriated. Continue always to bear with them and turn whatever

they do to anger you, into a thing of pleasure.

THE RISE OF FALSE PROPHETS

These happenings have pointed to the fact that this is the final era. Realize it yourself,

as you have known what the whole world has said about Brotherhood. Upon all the

blasphemous statements they have made against Brotherhood, tell me any of them, which is

the truth. All church denominations blaspheme along the same vein against

Brotherhood. The necromancers, soothsayers, juju priests say the same thing against

Brotherhood. Men and women say the same thing about Brotherhood. Can't you realize the

manifestation of The Word of God that "many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive

many? It is not their pleasure that they should rise up and do all these things, but it is to

fulfill that which was written about them. It is said, "And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold." For somebody to tell you that Brotherhood drinks blood, is

Beelzebub, is apparition, does this or that, you will be so weakened that you forget completely

about the truth.

IF THESE ARE DONE TO GREEN TREES, WHAT ABOUT THE DRY?

If they say these things about you, it is worst with them. Because in the world today,

there abound allegations upon allegations, that the mother wants to kill him, that a brother is

bewitching him or that somebody is doing some wicked act. Everywhere you go to in the

world, people are making allegations against one another. And that is why it is said, for if

they do these things to a green tree, what shall be done to the dry? (Luke 23:31) If you find

yourself in Brotherhood and you are so shaken by people, what do you think is the lot of the

people in the world? I always laugh at some people when they say that there are so many

temptations here, and so, they are withdrawing in order to stay in their houses. I would like

that you go and stay at home and you will surely reach your wits end. It is said, "Going

forward is the fear of death but retreating is death itself."

REFRAIN FROM SIN SO THAT YOU MAY BE REDEEMED

This injunction and revelation is given to you that you may hold tenaciously to The

Word of God. Those who will be saved throughout the world are those who will comply with

the instructions of God. You have not been told to refrain from committing fornication that

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you may have money. You have not been told to refrain from falsehood that you may have

money. You have not been told to forsake theft that you may have money. You have not been

told to refrain from any acts of sin so that you are blessed with children. But you have been

advised to refrain from any acts of sin that Jehovah God and His Christ may save and redeem

you. Because apart from Him no other person can save the world. Forget about if somebody

has taken something from you in an extortionate manner. Do not follow him. Whatever

somebody offends against you, whether they call you a witch, a wizard, a thief, be indifferent

about such tendencies.

FOLLOW PEACE WITH ALL MEN

Always live peaceably with every person remembering The Words of this Gospel. If

your child is so insulting, if your wife has done that which a woman should not do in the

house, forget about those occurrences. But live peacefully with them remembering that this

is the final era. It is said that The Lord has scheduled time for everything. As you have seen

here, this is His own fullness of time. This is the time that "many false prophets shall arise and shall deceive many" in the world. This is the time when "men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy."

EVIL IS THE TENDENCY OF MAN

In the past, it used to be said that the whites do not tell lies. But today they have told

lies to such an extent that one cannot even explain it. And the black man, who is an

experienced person in such a trade, joins them to perpetuate the unholy act. Hitherto, it used

to be said that the church is the place where people have love. But if you go to the churches

now, you will be so disillusioned because they have metamorphosed into centers of

politics. In the past, people contended that without the government, they would have

perished. But now, the government cannot live up to its functions. Instead, it is fraught with

all sorts of atrocities. People used to pride themselves that having children was a springboard

to achieving their life desires. But the reverse is the order today. They are very disappointed

by the type of children they have today because they are neck-deep in all manner of sins.

CATASTROPHE IN MARRIAGE

It used to be said that without a wife, a man would not have found himself in such a

good state. A woman would also contend that without a husband, her life would not have

been that well-off as it is. But today, both the wife and the husband are shadows of

themselves. A wife would so maltreat her husband, and a husband would make life so

difficult for his wife, that in either case such sad songs are sung, that you cannot know what

to do. A great many men now are sleeping outside because of the things their wives have

done at home. By the same token, many women stay outside because their husbands have

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brought so much fire into the house. Some children now do not stay in their parents' houses

because of the humiliating treatment they receive from their fathers and mothers. Every

moment there are allegations upon allegations, and even if you do not do anything, they will

say that you have done it. And so when you are feeling homesick, reports flow in on the

behavior of your children, wife or husband. And so people have always been at loggerheads

with others. There is so much pandemonium, and confusion is sweeping across the world.

PEOPLE HATE BROTHERHOOD WITHOUT A CAUSE

This Brotherhood has revealed the entire world unto you. Brotherhood does not light

candles, and does not burn incense. There is no orchestra introduced and we do not worship

anything else but The Living God. But have you not heard the allegations leveled against

Brotherhood throughout the world? They allege that in Brotherhood we worship man, we

worship diabolical things, mermaids, and apparition.

They claim that if one visits here, the person will see a human skull and other horrible

things. But they cannot even prove even one of the allegations as true. In your family circles,

the story remains the same. They allege that the Leader is a wizard, an apparition; that He

killed their children. From the beginning of time people have been making such allegations.

A great many people who are Brotherhood do not come here because they are always at

daggers drawn with others. They will allege that a certain person reported them to the

government, or that certain persons have reported them to certain quarters; and because of

these lies, they cannot stay together. You find a friend reporting you to the government, a

friend reporting a friend to the customs, a friend reporting a friend to many institutions that

they may set them into trouble. Do you not see what is going on in the world? Is it not you

yourselves perpetuating these tendencies?

PERILOUS TIMES

No matter what you do to a child he will not appreciate it. No matter what you do to

your husband, he will not show any sign of appreciation. Instead, he will call you a bush

person and question what really you have done for him. He will not find you useful in

anything. The same thing happens in the church denominations and in the world at large.

But for this word of truth given to you, and without the coming down of this Kingdom of God,

no person would have been saved. And if you do not hold on to this truth, you will be eluded

of this Kingdom of God. Always count that this is a perilous time, a very bad time. This is the

end of time for every person. Never you count that your mother has not loved you or that

your husband has not loved you but always estimate that this is the perilous time, which was

written about of old.

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ONLY MAN WAS PREDESTINED TO RULE

All that you witness from day to day are the things, which had been prophesied that

they will come to pass. Do not quake or tremble again on the trend of the events. Do not ask

questions why a particular thing should happen. Our Lord Jesus Christ overcame these

temptations, because all those things, which were written about Him came to manifestation,

and not one of them was unfulfilled. That was why when He was abused, cursed and

blasphemed against, He maintained sealed lips. He continued to laugh because He knew fully

well that those things were written about Him. They blasphemed against Our Lord Jesus

Christ to the extent that Pilate, the governor, when he was on the judgment seat asked Him,

"Hearst thou not how many things they witness against Thee? And He answered him to never

a word; insomuch that the governor marveled greatly." (Matthew 27:13-14/Mark 15:4-5) He

showed this behavioral pattern because He knew for certain that all those things were

written about Him. Have you not seen the handiwork of the false prophets? Satan has

troubled so many people. He has told people not to pay tithe, and has carried out so many

things.

Why do you allow yourself to be deceived by Satan that there will ever be any point in

time when somebody will descend from the clouds? How will He come down to the earth?

Today, even if you hail from a particular community and you are looking for a piece of land

to build a house for yourself, your brothers, mothers, fathers, relatives would not allow you

any space to build. How much more when you descend from the sky? Where will you settle

for a living? Where will you build a house as your place of abode? Now, you are born on earth

and have assumed the position of a father. You have a wife and are blessed with children but

who has accepted your ruler ship? They have refused your ruler ship. They have asserted

their independence. What then will be the case with somebody descending from the sky?

When he comes down, who will be subject to him?

Will there be any point in time when such a person will have any ruler ship over any

person? I want you to ponder over that situation. Look at the governors you elected for

yourselves. Now, they are languishing in jail. Right now, kings, emperors, traditional rulers

are struggling over positions of power. And so there is no peace amongst them. But consider

somebody, descending from the sky, whose father, mother and relatives are unknown; and

you want to accept such a person as a ruler? Where will he stay to rule? Can you not see how

false prophets are deceiving you? They say that somebody will come from the clouds amidst

trumpets and other pleasantries. Where will he settle? Will he settle on water? The entire

land space is already owned by people. Even if you come from the same country but work in

another place other than your town, and you are often told by the citizens to go to your town;

so what is the fate of somebody descending from the sky? In the recent past, governments

have been looking for land for some establishments but to no avail. If a whole community

with a pressing need for land to establish something cannot fish out a piece of land to do so,

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think about somebody coming down from the clouds. He will not even have a place to settle,

talk less of ruling over people.

THE JEWS DID NOT BELIEVE IN THE CHRIST

Can you then realize how false prophets have succeeded in deceiving us? The same

thing happened during the days of old, during The Advent of Our Lord Jesus Christ. They told

the people not to look up to Our Lord Jesus Christ. They argued that when The Christ will

come, no person will know His parents. When He raised the dead, made the blind to see, the

lame to walk, the deaf to hear and the dumb to speak, the people said that He did not use the

power of God to heal those infirmities but He was using the power of Beelzebub. And against

this background, many people left Him.

LIE NOT AGAINST ONE ANOTHER

All the things you see are meant to serve as lessons, as guiding lines for you and

me. Have you not heard what happened between Potiphar's wife and Joseph? When she

wanted to control Joseph to lie with her, and he refused, she went and told lies to the husband

saying. "The Hebrew servant, which thou hast brought unto us, came in unto me to mock me:

and to lie with me. And it came to pass, as I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his

garment with me, and fled out." And Potiphar, as foolish as his wife, took Joseph, and put him into the prison (Genesis 39:7-20). Is it not exactly what is happening today? Somebody comes

to give you a vision that a person wants to kill you, and if the next morning you meet that

person and he calls you brother, you will turn away from him claiming that he is not a

brother to you. Is it not the same thing? People are deceiving you. Upon all the sermons I have

delivered to you from the highest heaven none of you has believed me. But you continue to be

deceived by people that there is witchcraft, apparition, mermaid; and that somebody wants

to poison you. Many people who are not members of Brotherhood have been testifying that it

is impossible to kill a Brotherhood member. But you inside here continue to believe in the

existence of ghosts, witchcraft, apparition and other diabolical things.

LIVE PEACEABLY WITH ALL MEN

Now, have you not realized that you have been given the tree of life? It is the truth that

you have been given. That is, you should hold on to your righteousness. No matter what

somebody has done to you, even if he plucks off your eye, go away. Live peacefully with every

man, knowing fully well that what happens to you is the manifestation of that which was

written about you. And it is a question of time, for the "bug" will be smoothened. You are not doing any of these things out of your own pleasure but it is that evil spirit creeping in you

that had been bringing about such tendencies even till date. Somebody will rise up to tell you

that he is a wizard and has killed ten persons. Can you say that he is the one making that

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statement out of his own volition? It is the handiwork of the evil spirit. For how can he call

himself a wizard?

Somebody collects plantain leaves and compound them into something inside a bottle

and hangs it inside his farm and calls it juju or diabolical thing to protect the farm against

unauthorized aggression. What is inside the bottle to affect such a function? Is that really

diabolic? Somebody can rise up in the midst of others and show to you the finger rings, which

he had brought from the market. But he will assert that he had acquired them from the root

of diabology. And thus he is battle-ready to return fire for fire against any person who deems

it wise to cause trouble with him. In reality, he has nothing with him. But you begin to

tremble with fear about what you believe to be his newly acquired power. But the man

himself will be laughing since he knows that he has nothing on him.

THE HOLY SPIRIT REIGNS

Because of problems hatched by people against you, you threaten that you are going to

report them to Olumba Olumba Obu; for He knows all that they are doing. What effect does

that statement have? You are only joking with them. But they on their part will construe it to

mean that you are dead serious about it, believing that you are going to Calabar; and that

makes the turn of events to be uncertain. Brethren, all these things are vain words which

have no life. Do not listen to any person who comes to tell you that the other person wants to

kill you or the other person hates you. For the moment you listen to such utterances, your

love will wax cold. The Holy Spirit has assumed His reign. No person or carnal thing is

reigning. Your words cannot avail any person anything.

ESCHEW VAIN WORDS

Your wife can tell you that upon her dead body, she is not marrying you again. Yet till

today, she is still in your house and she does not die. And a husband can tell a wife that he

does not want her again, so she should pack her belongings and leave. But they are still

staying in the house as husband and wife. They are laughing, eating and enjoying everything.

Do you not see that these are vain words, which you should not lend your ears to? If you see

how a husband and a wife disgrace themselves, you would jump to the conclusion that they

will never live together under the same roof. But shortly after that the woman will ask the

husband whether he has eaten. And the man will demand that she prepares food for him.

LISTEN TO THE SPIRIT OF GOD

This indicates that all the shaky things in the world will be uprooted. Never depend on

mere words as the truth. There lies no truth in them excepting the words, which proceed out

of the mouth of Jehovah God and His Christ. For this is the veritable truth. But do not believe

in any words spoken by any person. That is why I instruct you not to look unto any person,

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whether man or woman. But listen attentively to your spirit and the teachings you have

received, for they will lead you unto the Promised Land, because the flesh cannot avail you

any good thing. Remember what Paul said, "For the good that I would, I do not: but the evil

which I would not, that I do. Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me." (Romans 7:19) It is the flesh that rises up and causes you to derail from the path of rectitude. Any day you give food to your wife, she will call you "my dear." But when there is no more food, she will call you by your name, and will hush you up and also ask you

to get away from her.

STAND FIRM IN THE WORD OF TRUTH

The same thing happens with the man. He loves the wife up to the time she is able to do

what is good. Anytime the wife does something, which is not his will, he will say that the

woman should be left alone; for she is always a wayward woman. I have told you this, that

you may rearrange your thinking. Pay deaf ears to whatever allegations people level against

you because they will cause your love to wax cold. But hold fast to this word of truth, word of

righteousness, and word of God given to you. Put it on as an armor of God upon yourselves. It

is not expedient that a young lady should live with the father but should live with the mother.

When you find a young girl living with the father, know that there is something fishy in the

family. In the same vein, when you see people doing things they should not do, know that it is

not their pleasure to do so. Therefore, the Children of God should not be exasperated or

impute sin on anyone, but they should continue to show love and affection to them, and go

on ministering good things to them, realizing that this is the end of time. You will note that

when somebody comes to your house you give him money. He comes again, and you offer

him food. When you cannot play up any longer as you have been doing, the person will vow

that he cannot come to your house again. He will speak all sorts of evil things against you. Is

it not why you say that even if you have something, because of his insolence, you will not give

him? When you say that, have you not fallen?

THE CHRIST LOVED HIS DISCIPLES TO THE END

Do you not remember Our Lord Jesus Christ with His twelve disciples? He knew that

Judas Iscariot would betray Him. But did He stop loving him as He loved the other disciples?

He loved them unto the end. And that is exactly what we are asked to do, for therein lies our

salvation and redemption. Remember what Peter told the Pharisees when they charged him

not to preach in the name of Our Lord Jesus Christ? Peter told them to think for themselves if

it be good in the sight of God to listen to the voice of man rather than that of God. (Acts 7:19).

That is why the glad tidings of great joy are being sent to you that you should not listen to the

voice of man but hearken to the voice of God. This is so because if you lend your ears to the

voice of man, your love will wax cold, you will no longer listen to The Word of God. You will

not practice The Word of God and in the final analysis; you will be eluded of this Kingdom of

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God. That is why these things have been revealed to you that at the end of time they will come

to pass. Thus, when you see these things, do not be distracted but continue to forge ahead.

ALL SHOULD REPENT AND COME FOR SALVATION

If you have been bearing malice against somebody because he had called you a wizard,

or a thief, and for that reason you say that you will never forgive that person, as soon as you

read this portion of the Holy Bible this night, become truly repentant and forget about what

somebody had ever done to you. If you had resolved that since that person had done one

thing or the other to your forefather, father or brother, you will never be at peace with him,

repent at this moment, and ponder over the lesson yourself. If God was to look at our

iniquities, of what use would He make us at this end of time? Consider the case of Our Lord

Jesus Christ who came to save you and me; but nobody appreciated all that He did for

mankind. We blasphemed against Him and finally crucified Him on the cross; even saying

unto Him, "If thou be The Son of God, come down from the cross." Yet instead of Him

retaliating, He rather prayed to The Father saying. "Father forgive them for they know not

what they do." (Luke 23:34)

If He had fashioned His action on the behavioral pattern of man, He would not have

treated man so kindly and magnanimously. That is why you have been advised that from

today, even if members come to your house and plunder all your goods and money, allow

them to plunder; but laugh at them because their action is the manifestation of The Word of

God. This tendency has caused many members, who have been providing accommodation

free of charge to unfortunate brothers and sisters to refuse providing accommodation to

others, since these unfortunate ones used to become atrocious, insulting and stealing the

member's properties when they want to go away. It is a case of once bitten, twice shy. A great

many people who have been kind to brothers and sisters, giving money and food and other

things to the brothers who promise to return the money but never do, are rather insulted and

scandalized often. This will result in a position where these kind people will swear that as a

result of such bad behavior, they will never be generous and benevolent to others again. But I

now advise you not to swear, but continue with your good deeds. Do not be weary in your well

doing.

DO NOT ALLOW YOUR LOVE TO WAX COLD

The Word of God is never fulfilled in animals but in human beings. It is said because

iniquities shall abound, the love of many will wax cold. Do not allow your love to wax cold; no

matter the circumstances, no matter what happens to you even if they sever your head from

your body or pound you in a mortar like foo foo, or cast you into prison, or burn you at the

stake, or even if they decide to assassinate your character and do something degrading to

your personality and integrity. No matter what your wife or husband or children or brothers

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or sisters or father or mother or the world may do or say to you, do not lend your ears to

them, do not allow your love to wax cold. Do not look at them, nor should you listen to them,

but continue with your good deeds truthfully, since you know that such actions make The

Word of God manifest. God had warned Adam that if he ate the forbidden fruit, he would

know that it is the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. (Genesis 3:22) This explains why

good and evil walk hand-in-hand. When you hear about a good thing, it is quickly followed by

an evil thing.

OVERCOME EVIL WITH GOOD

Right now, you complain that when you do good to somebody, he pays you back with a

bad coin. Every person says it, and it had become a hymn for you. If you come across those

you have done good things to and observe how they behave towards you, it will be so

uncompromising that some of them will even advise people to chop off your head. They will

treat you in such a manner that you are forced to question whether that is how people

behave. But they will ask who you are and what you can do to him. With such tendencies, you

will realize what is in the Scriptures that the person who eats your food is the one, who kicks,

you off. (John 13:18) He has done this to you so that your love may wax cold. When your love

waxes cold, you will perish. But if you forget what people have done to you and continue to do

that which is good, you will be saved. I know that this Gospel has been sent by The Holy Father

to the world in order to wake people up from their deep sleep. The Second Lesson will now be

read.

Second Bible Lesson: 2 Timothy 3:2

For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers,

disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy.

Brethren, have you heard that? If these things do not come to manifestation, would

you say that God is the God of falsehood? Remember The Word of Our Lord Jesus Christ that

this generation will not pass away until everything is consummated. (Matthew 24:34) If

somebody loves money, he is making The Word of God to manifest. Any person who tries to

love himself by putting on costly raiment is making The Word of God to be fulfilled. For you

to find somebody who is proud and arrogant, he is fulfilling The Word of God.

THE SHEPHERD SHALL BE SMITTEN AND THE SHEEP SHALL SCATTER

For somebody to be insolent, insulting, he is making The Word of God come to pass.

Any person who is trying to prove disobedient to his parents, he is manifesting The Word of

God. What is the evil in such actions?

And that was why Our Lord Jesus Christ told His disciples, "All ye shall be offended

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shall be scattered abroad Peter said, Though all men shall be offended because of Thee, yet

will I never be offended." (Matthew 26:31-33/ Mark 14:27-29) If they had not scattered, it

means that He would not have been The Christ, and The Word of God would have been put to

nought. That night, all of them denied Him, and that was another manifestation of The Word

of God that He was truly The Christ. And you have realized that if these things did not come

to pass at that point in time, this would not be regarded as the final era. Have you not realized

that all that have happened in the world take such a trend because they were meant to be

manifested at this end of time and that is why I am swimming in great happiness and peace

for seeing the fulfillment of that which was written about this era.

AN EYE OPENER

I do not know why such inspiring gospels have always been delivered on Sunday

nights. This Gospel is an eye-opener. It is a sort of protection to every man and also serves as

a projection of The Word of God. You stay with somebody without any craftiness and with

perfect peace, but all of a sudden, he begins to allege that you are trying to seduce the

husband or wife, and you are trying to play pranks. And because of this, your love is bound to

wax cold to the extent that you vow never to do that which is good to people. You know for

certain that except you have heard this Word of God and believed in it, there is no human

being whose spirit will not be dampened completely when so many allegations have been

made against him, and his character has been defamed. What is happening in the world is

that when you do good to somebody, he repays you with a bad coin. For that reason your

spirit becomes dampened and you decide within yourself that you will never do another good

thing again. Do not be exasperated. For it has been said, "And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold." It is of a truth that a great many people will allow their love to wax cold. But do not allow your love to wax cold.

DO NOT FEAR WHAT MAN WILL SAY TO YOU

Brethren, this is the Gospel which you will use to overcome the world. It is also what

the world has used in defeating you. Because the moment you listen to evil communications,

and consider the evil things people are doing, then your love is bound to wax cold. A great

many of us here know precisely what good things we should do to people, but because we

have done them before, only to be repaid with bad coins, or we have been called names, and

certain horrible things have happened to us, we promise not to do any good thing to any

person again. There is nothing that man fears more than false allegations, defamation of

character and, disgrace. That is the weapon of Satan. They will conspire to tell people that you

have not done anything. They will tell lies about you. The moment lies are heaped on

somebody his love will be completely dampened. And what you will use to overcome them is

The Word of God, which has advised that you should not be overcome with evil, but overcome

evil with good. (Romans 12:21). Is this not the Armageddon war you have been hearing about?

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DO GOOD TO THOSE WHO HATE YOU

That is why even when you are slanderous about Brotherhood, I still embrace you,

praise you and do every good thing to you. You begin to ponder within yourself why is it that

of all that you have done to Him, you are still well received. I do this because I cannot see

anything people can do to me. You are true witnesses to the allegations leveled by the worldly

people against Brotherhood. If particular attention were to be paid to such tendencies, The

Work of God would have been long dead and buried. Was it not what induced Peter to take up

his sword and cut off the ear of one of the servants of the High Priest? What did Our Lord

Jesus Christ say to him? He told him to, "Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword." (Matthew 26:52). Is this not the cause of your exasperation? You cannot see any wisdom in the many blasphemies against Brotherhood, The

Kingdom of God which has brought good to the world, saved human lives, and in which there

has never been any type of apparition. Because of the blasphemies, when somebody greets

you outside you frown your face at them. Do not do it again. Always look kindly at persons

who make allegations against you.

LIVE AND LET LIVE

Continue to do your work and allow them to do theirs. And that was why when Judas

Iscariot cast down the thirty pieces of silver in the temple, they decided among themselves

and said, "It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of the blood.

And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field to bury strangers in.

Wherefore that field was called, "The field of blood,” unto this day. Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying, "And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was valued, whom they of the children of Israel did value; and gave

them for the potter's field, as The Lord appointed me."(Matthew 27:9-10). At another time, it was said, "And parted His garments casting lots: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken

by the prophet. They parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast

lots." (Matthew 27:35).

THE ERA OF MONEY LOVERS

Therefore, whatever happens is a manifestation of that which has been written. We

will not fail to bring to manifestation all these things, which were written. Can you realize

that all that had been written in The Holy Bible will come to fulfillment, fast as you may, or

pray as you may? Stop fasting and praying because these things will actually be made

manifest. Look at Brotherhood. Have I ever told you to make a launching, or to build a bethel

or to equip this place with all the gadgets? But it has been written that at this end of time,

people will be lovers of self and lovers of money. You are doing it out of your own volition but

you are only manifesting that which was written about you. For me alone, that shed building

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at 26 Mbukpa Road would have sufficed. What need do I have for a house? But if I do it The

Word of God will not be fulfilled. Do you not see what you are doing today? I do it so because I

am not the one who is responsible for it but The Word of God. Remember that what used to be

the healing home was that shed building. And that was sufficient for me. But do you not see

what is there now? Because it was written that at this final era people will be lovers of money

and wealth. I do not go there. I ran from there and stayed here. Do you not see what is

happening here? When you begin to do these things, I am always kept at sea over such

projects. Is there anything I instruct you to do? You do all these things without telling Me.

The Word Of God Is Fulfilled

Go to 26 Mbukpa Road and see the type of benches which I kept there. Compare such

things with what you have here. We cannot help it because it is the end of time. It is said, "For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient

to parents, unthankful, unholy." Don't you see the magnificent "Beautiful Gate" and many other things you have brought about? We cannot help it, for it was written about you. And so

do not be derelict because it is said, "For verily I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled." (Matthew

5:18) Brethren, why this Gospel is given to you this night is to serve as a warning to you so

that you may begin to have peace from today because a great many of you do not have peace

at all. You continue to complain about your children, your church, your wife, your husband.

Comply with this Word of God, and have peace.

HOLD FAST TO YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS

When the Sons of God went to visit their Lord, "Satan came also among them. And The

Lord said unto Satan, whence comes thou? Then Satan answered The Lord, and said, from

going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it. And The Lord said unto

Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect

and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? Then Satan answered The

Lord, and said, doth Job fear God for nought? Hast not Thou made a hedge about him and

about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? Thou has blessed the work of his

hands, and his substance is increased in the land. But put forth Thine hand now, and touch

all that he hath, and he will curse Thee to Thy face. And The Lord said unto Satan, Behold, all

that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand." (Job 1:6-12) If Job did not hold fast to his righteousness, do you mean to tell me that he would not have fallen?

Upon all that happened to him, he said, "Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked

shall I return thither; The Lord gave, and The Lord hath taken away; blessed be The Name of

The Lord. In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly." (Job 1 21-22) And that was why God held him strongly unto Himself.

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This is what God has kept for you and me. If you hold tenaciously to Him, do not look

back because all the things happening to you are meant to tempt and prove those who really

love Him. Let us not be lovers of money, or ourselves, nor be disobedient to our parents, not

be blasphemers, and not be covetous, since we know that these things are what await those

who do not believe at this final era. This is the time for examination. Every person in the

world is begotten of God but all those who will pass this examination will be those who will be

at His side. It is said that so many people run the race but only few persons get the prize. I

charge you not to be lovers of money, not to be covetous, not to hate people, not to be lovers of

yourselves. But let us hearken to The Voice of God because this recondite wisdom, revealed

unto you, has eluded the people of the world. It is said that many are called but few are

chosen. (Matthew 22:14)

PLAIN TEACHING

Realize that when Our Lord Jesus Christ spoke to the multitude of people, He spoke in

parables. But when He retired to His resting place, the disciples will go to ask Him to explain

to them the meaning of the parables. He did not speak parabolic ally to His disciples. He was

telling them everything plainly as I am telling you. And that was why the disciples asked Him

saying, "Why speakest thou unto them in parables?" And "He answered and said unto them, because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but to them it

is not given." (Luke 8:10) For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more

abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that which he hath."

(Matthew 25:29).

WITH ANY TEMPTATION, GOD WILL PROVIDE A WAY OF ESCAPE

This Gospel is meant to strengthen the faith of the Children of God. Because a great

many of you here have driven away your children on the grounds of disobedience. You have

driven away your wives because of their headiness. And you have cast away your brothers,

sisters and other relatives because you feel that they hate you. And you start to wonder what

manner of sin you have committed to merit such trouble. It is no sin but the manifestation of

that which was written about you at this age. Can you not see the security provided you by

God?

He says, "Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the

hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the

earth." If we shall not be lovers of ourselves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers,

disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, He will hold us unto Himself and we shall not fall

at any temptation. A great many men are puzzled why they are instructed not to fornicate,

and they ask what women were made for. Others are worried why they are enjoined not to

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drink, notwithstanding the various brands of liquor available in the market. They conclude

that it is very difficult to understand The Leader.

HEAR AND PRACTICE THE WORD OF GOD

Sometimes you ask the question why is it that when somebody covets you, you should

not exchange blows with him. Why you are told not to retaliate at any point in time is that if

you keep to these injunctions of God, He will keep you from the hour of temptation. It is His

own promise to the Children of God, "Because thou hast kept The Word of My Patience, I also

will keep thee from the hours of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them

that dwell upon the earth."(Revelation 3:10) Remember The Parable of Our Lord Jesus Christ

which says, "Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken

him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: And the rain descended, and the

floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded

upon a rock. And everyone that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be

liken unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: And the rain descended, and

the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the

fall of it." (Matthew 7:24-27)

In the same token, if we do not comply with His instructions we can be compared to a

house built on top of the sand. And none of us will be able to survive the impending

temptation. But He has promised us saying, "Because thou hast kept The Word of My

Patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the

world, to try them that dwell upon the earth." Who am I to be able to withstand the

temptations and all the problems in the world? I am being kept by Jehovah God and His

Christ. Brethren, I do not wish to take you further. Let us hear The Promise of God. The Golden

Text will now be read.

Golden Text: Revelation 3:10

Because Thou hast kept The Word of My Patience, I also will keep Thee from the hour of

temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.

IF YOU PRACTICE THE GOSPEL, HE WILL PROTECT YOU IN THE HOUR OF TEMPTATION

Brethren, have you heard that? It is said, "Because Thou hast kept The Word of My

Patience, I also will keep Thee from the hour of temptation." Without Jehovah God and His

Christ, who would have been able to survive? And that is why you have been told in the

spiritual chorus, "When you cling to God, you will always be more than conquerors."

That is the reason you are instructed to refrain from committing fornication, telling

lies, engaging in the preparation of concoction, hating people; you are not to be exasperated,

not to institute court action against any person, because if you comply with The Words of

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God, He will take you majestically across. Do not ask the question, when He will come? Do not

wait but since you have kept The Word of His Patience, He has promised to protect you in the

hour of temptation. So long as you have received this recondite Wisdom of God, continue to

hold fast to your righteousness. That is why you should not fornicate, indulge in any form of

diabolical things, drink liquor, tell lies, and do anything, which will not bring glory unto God,

so that you will always live to conquer.

THERE IS NO DISAPPOINTMENT IN JESUS

Human beings will deceive you. Your father will deceive you, Governments will deceive

you. The church will deceive you. But God will never disappoint you, and has never failed

anybody. Have you not heard the wording of the spiritual chorus saying: "There is no

disappointment in Jesus." And He says, "Because thou hast kept The Word of My Patience, I also will keep Thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try

them that dwell upon the earth." Who has deceived you that there can be any rain and the

earth will not know about it? Who deceives you that a single hair can be lifted up from your

head and your God in Heaven will not know about it? Who can deceive you that all the

temptations besetting people in the world are not known of God? If He had not known about

these temptations why would He speak publicly to you tonight?

The First Lesson has told you, "And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive

many. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold." Brethren, the

Second Lesson says, "for men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud,

blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy." Have you not seen that these

things have been spoken openly to you? And He says, "Because Thou hast kept The Word of

My Patience, I also will keep Thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the

world, to try them that dwell upon the earth." A great many people think that when

somebody refrains from committing fornication, stealing, and other acts of sin, he will have

children, money or houses. This is erroneous. You are told to refrain from these acts of sin so

that God will protect you at the hour of temptation. It is said, "For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" (Mark 8:36).

NO MATERIAL THING CAN PROTECT YOU IN THE HOUR OF TEMPTATION

Now, you have money, children and everything but this temptation will actually knock

you down. Do you not know that this is the time that people will come to your house and

present money to you? Women will actually come and besiege you in the house. For it is

written about this end of time thus, "And in that day seven women shall take hold of one

man, saying, we will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy

name, to take away our reproach." (Isaiah 4:1). This is the time a brother will sell his brother to the other person, he will tell lies and commit many other atrocities. This is the time that

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people love money more than God, or even their children. Every time and everywhere they

talk about nothing but money and forget completely about everything else in the world. Right

now no person loves any other person. You want to go from here to Mbukpa Road, and you

enter a car.

Everywhere you go, you must board a car. Do you not see how you love yourself? People

claim to be enjoying themselves. They attend ballroom dances. Big hotels are built with

millions of naira. Nightclubs are the order of the day. Do you not see the manifestation of The

Word of God? If you are not strong in character and you dare go into the midst of the people

of the world, they are bound to consume you. If you do not drink any type of liquor, they will

say that you are an apparition and will mock at you. If you cannot curse or abuse people, they

call you a reprobate. If you do not have a boyfriend or girlfriend, they will ask if you are

impotent. They will abuse you to such an extent that you may be forced to tow their line.

A PANACEA FOR ALL TEMPTATIONS

If you do not exchange blows with somebody, they will call you a woman. You find

some people along the street and they will tell you to give way. They will begin to struggle

with you, knock you down and go their way. There is confusion everywhere. In your office,

church and homes, pandemonium is prevalent. People are turning confusion into their daily

meals. And that is why our God, who loves His children so much, has given this panacea to all

of us that we may live eternally. If we hold onto His advice and injunctions given to us from

day to day we are bound to be saved. I know that the publication of this Gospel and the

circulation of it to the whole world will do great work to such an extent that Satan will go

away shamefully. Because God Himself has realized that the love of a great many of you is

waxing cold due to the many allegations made against you by people within the church itself,

in your houses, in your family, at the place of work and you are demurred at doing what is

good.

YOU ARE SAVED

And Our Lord Jesus Christ has warned that you should remember the place from where

you had fallen and go back to your first love, otherwise He will remove the candle stand from

its place. (Revelation 2:4-5) Do you not remember when I said that 1985 will see many people

practicing The Word of God? Can you not realize how this is consummated? Therefore, do not

ask whether you will be saved. Because you are already saved since you have refrained from

fornication, drinking, preparation of concoction and diabology. Upon all the allegations

made against The Leader and you, His children, you have remained undaunted. It is not

yourself holding on to the truth but it is The Father who is holding you unto Himself that His

promise might be fulfilled. What have you been told by that spiritual chorus? It says, "No

matter how tough the battle is, I will wade across the sea with you." Have you not seen that He 135

has waded across the sea with you? Do not fidget but stand firm where you are. For you are

under the mighty tutelage of The Holy Father. We have to hold on to our righteousness by

loving one another. The whole world is to be pitied. Any person without The Christ, or without

The Word of God, has been damned. This is the time that each and every one of us should run

to The Christ because He is the only one who can salvage us. Brethren, I do not intend to be

tedious unto you. One stroke of the cane is sufficient unto the wise. Those who have ears let

them hear. May God Bless His Holy Words. Amen.

Reference: everlasting sermon by the sole spiritual head of the universe, leader olumba

olumba obu on "if you practice the word of God, he will deliver you out of temptation."

from: the condition for eternal life pages: 80-104

THANK YOU FATHER

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NO CROSS, NO CROWN

Bible Lesson: Matthew 7:13

Enter ye in at the strait gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be

that find it.

Golden Text: 2nd Timothy 3:12

Yea, and all that will live Godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.

This is the narrow path that leads to life eternal. It means living in harmony with God's

Will and imitating Our Lord Jesus Christ by refraining from all sins. Now if you refrain from

fornication, your boyfriends and girlfriends must certainly desert you. If you stop taking

drugs and injections, the worldly people will deny you; and if you stop drinking, attending

disco dances, and drinking parlors, people will start to fear you and envy you. It is true. Any

person who wants to be righteous must pass through the narrow path. You will experience

false accusations, and scandals; you will be the object of gossip and jealousy. Diverse

problems will creep in from everywhere, so that you will start to doubt whether you are

actually in the path of God. Several types of temptations will come to you.

2nd Corinthians 4:8-11

We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;

Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; Always bearing about in the body

the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. For

we which live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might

be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

In the time of Our Lord Jesus Christ, there were these pleasures of life, but Christ knew

that the narrow path led to everlasting life and He stuck to it. Avoid the broad way that leads

to destruction. In order to keep on the narrow path, you must count all things to be lost for

the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus Our Lord. See Philippians 3:8. This path

requires, self-control, self-denial, self-discipline, long-suffering and all Godly virtues. The

teachings that you receive here do not only satisfy your material needs but also lead you on

the narrow path to life. You should regard The Word of God as your parents, your life-wire.

Arm yourself with The Word of God in order to be able to overcome temptation. Do not resist

an evil doer, bless them which persecute you, bless and curse not. Recompense to no man

evil for evil.

Romans 12:14-21.

"Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not. Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep. Be of the same mind one towards another. Mind not high things,

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but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits. Recompense no man

evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men. If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men. Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place

unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. Therefore if thy

enemy, hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink; for in so doing thou shall heap coals of

fire on his head. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

Our Lord Jesus is our model.

1st Peter 2:21-23

For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example,

that ye should follow His steps: Who did no sin, neither was guile found in His mouth: Who,

when He was reviled, reviled not again; when He suffered, He threatened not, but committed

Himself to him that judgeth righteously.

Therefore the instruction is, "Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and

broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go thereat." (Matt

7:13) There is no institution, government, school that can prevent fornication. To them it is a pleasure trip. The world will cherish the broad way which leads to condemnation. The

Teaching of Our Lord Jesus Christ is the narrow path. Let us look intently on Our Lord

Jesus Christ and follow His steps closely. Temptations must surely come to try your faith

but remember.

2nd Timothy 3:12.

Yea, and all that will live Godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.

Yes, "no cross - no crown."

You will be called names. Stumbling blocks will be placed on your way, but with faith in

God, pass through without complaining; for as the right soldier of Christ, you must suffer

evil. People will come to your house to insult you. Accept all persecution with courage. Rejoice

for being persecuted for righteousness sake. Do not seek the praise of men. Do not seek to be

loved by people. If you want the praises of people and their love, it means that your work is

sinful.

"Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though

some strange thing happened unto you: But rejoice in as much as ye are partakers of Christ's

sufferings; that when His glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. If ye

be reproached for The Name of Christ, happy are ye, for The Spirit of Glory and of God resteth

upon you: on their part He is evil spoken of, but on your part He is glorified." (1 Peter 4:12-14) 138

In the narrow path, yes on the highway there, it is a way of holiness; the unclean shall

not pass over it, fornicators, adulterers, drunkards, liars, thieves, polygamists and those who

practice vile things. As a good soldier of Christ, do not fear persecution.

Read Revelation 2:10:

Fear none of those things, which thou shalt suffer: behold the devil shall cast some of you

into prison that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto

death, and I will give thee a crown of life.

May My Peace and Blessing be upon all of you now and forevermore. Amen!

Reference: bible Class Lecture by The Supernatural Teacher, Leader Olumba Olumba Obu on

"NO CROSS - NO CROWN".

THANK YOU FATHER

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ALWAYS LISTEN TO THE VOICE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT WITHIN YOU

FIRST BIBLE LESSON: JOHN 4:24

God is a spirit: and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.

SECOND BIBLE LESSON: GALATIANS 5:16

This I say then, walk in Spirit and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

GOLDEN TEXT: ACTS 10:19-21

While Peter thought on the vision, The Spirit said unto him, Behold, three men seek thee.

Arise therefore, and get thee down, and go with them, doubting nothing: for I have sent

them. Then Peter went down to the men, which were sent onto him from Cornelius; and said,

Behold, I am he whom ye seek: what is the cause wherefore ye are come?

Brethren that is the revelation of our lesson this morning. In the past, people thought

that The Holy Spirit was in Heaven. Many people regarded Him as a thing of fable. At the

moment we have seen from our lesson what is meant by the working of The Holy Spirit.

When your mind is disturbed, The Spirit directs you right ahead on what to do. The Spirit said

to Peter, "Have no doubt for I am the one sending you." Do you not know that the particular spirit working in you is the urge that directs your affairs? Whatever The Holy Spirit directs

you to do, do not doubt, and act upon it. Our Lord Jesus Christ was killed in the flesh but He

lives in the spirit. Whenever somebody speaks to you, know that it is The Holy Spirit that

speaks and not the speaker. All those who are the Children of God listen to this spirit. God is a

spirit and all those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth. It does not

only end with your having The Holy Spirit, but you have to also listen to Him and act

according to His directives.

The Holy Spirit is God the creator. He is the king of kings and lord of lords and the long

expected comforter whom you have been waiting for. He who believes in him is safe, in the

name of our lord Jesus Christ, amen. It is not the shaking of the head alone that makes one

worship God. It is only when you behave according to the directives of the Holy Spirit: when

he tells you to pray, you pray; when he tells you to sing, you sing; when he tells you to

prophesy, you prophesy. When he forbids you from doing a particular thing you stop doing

that immediately for Christ himself walked in spirit. You are witnesses that when he was

possessed by the Holy Spirit he was led into the wilderness. There was no single thing he did

by himself; he was always listening to the Holy Spirit.

The Spirit directed Him to go into the desert, it was not because He liked it but He had

to obey His call. Our trouble is that we do not believe that the spirit that lives in us is God who created heaven and earth. That is why we do not have peace in our lives. How can we please

God when we do not listen to him? He teaches you about the mysteries of The Kingdom but

you do not listen to Him. That is why a lot of people are unable to perform this work, for flesh

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and blood cannot please God. If you live according to the directives of the flesh you will

surely die. Christ did not please Himself but He listened to The Holy Spirit. All the Apostles,

James, Peter, John, to mention a few did not please themselves but they listened to The Holy

Spirit. There are certain places where you go to and The Spirit urges you not to say a word,

and you have to obey Him. Always do whatsoever The Holy Spirit wants you to do. There may

be a time when The Holy Spirit urges you to go on ministry journey to up to five stations you

have to obey. What I am telling you, all of you are a living witness that The Spirit comes to

dwell in every one of you so that you might be inheritors of His Kingdom.

Our Lord Jesus Christ emphatically said that God is a Spirit and they that worship Him

must worship him in spirit and in truth. But for those who professed to be Children of God

but indulge in fornication and adultery and other vices, are led by the evil spirit. Therefore

brethren do not regard God as man, tree, Beelzebub. He is nothing but The True Spirit of God.

Our Lord Jesus did not say that God is a man or ghost but He said that God is a spirit. Our Lord

Jesus Christ said, "Nevertheless, I tell you the truth, it is expedient for you that I go away for if I do not go away The Comforter will not come unto you, but if I depart, I will send him unto

you." The question now is has that Comforter come? Since that time He has always been here

but people did not believe in Him. How can you claim to be The Child of God when you do not

believe in the existence of The Holy Spirit?

All of us are school children but we are not in a carnal school. We are scholars of God

by listening to spirit only. That is why we must pray always. After you have prayed, sit down

and listen to his voice. As we are scholars of God we do not have to do anything by ourselves.

We are His little children. As children we cannot do anything by ourselves except what The

Father tells us to do. Any disobedient child will not receive any good thing from His Father. A

lot of us suffer because we disobey God. Many of us disobey the directives of the Holy Spirit

and as a result we suffer untold hardship, praying for life and death and yet we cannot find

any because we disobey the Holy Spirit.

There are many things we have to do for Him and there are also many things He wishes

to teach us as Our Lord Jesus Christ bore witness about Him. Read your Bibles from Genesis to

Revelation as much as you like but if you are not led by The Holy Spirit, it avails you nothing.

This is because it was written through the inspiration of The Holy Spirit it is The Holy Spirit

alone who can give accurate interpretation. That is why Our Lord Jesus Christ said that if a

man is not born of water and Spirit he cannot enter into The Kingdom of God. There is no

person who knows the mind of God except The Holy Spirit. At times you may say I am very

worried, I do not know what is wrong with me, why do you have a disturbed mind? It is

because you failed to listen to The Holy Spirit. We are not annoyed when somebody offends

us, neither are we annoyed when we offend ourselves, but we are annoyed because we failed

to listen the dictates of The Holy Spirit.

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Whether you have money or not it is not your problem, whether you are healthy or

sick, it does not affect you. But whenever you failed to listen to the directives of The Holy

Spirit trouble comes in. Even if you fill this Pentecostal Hall with money and other precious

things and you are still unhappy know that you have not listened to The Holy Spirit within

you. At times you asked yourselves, "I have acquired wealth and all worldly pleasures, why

am I still unhappy?" Know from this that you have failed to listen to and act according to the dictates of The Holy Spirit. The peace that the world is fighting, struggling, and spending

money to get all hangs on listening to The Holy Spirit. If you listen to the Holy Spirit you will

find that you feel very happy, you are content and that you have no more worries. This is the

reign of The Holy Spirit and there is no other force in Heaven and on Earth that can oppose or

challenge Him. The father does not reign neither the son except the Holy Spirit. If you want

good health, listen to The Holy Spirit, whatever He tells you, act accordingly and you will have

your desires met. Do not look for power from the sun, moon, secret societies, native doctors

etc. Listen to the spirit and he will give you the ultimate power. If you want to acquire all the

Godly virtues: love, strength, wisdom, act according to the instructions of The Holy Spirit and

you will get them all.

Our Lord Jesus Christ said, "if you love Me you will keep My commandments and I will

pray The Father and He shall send you another Comforter who will abide with you forever,

even The Spirit of Truth whom the world cannot receive because it seeth Him not neither

knoweth, but ye know Him for He dwelleth with you and He shall dwell in you. Is The Holy

Spirit not living in your heart? Have you not heard when He speaks to you? At times He tells

you to knock your head on the ground and if you refuse, you receive a heavy punishment.

How can you live in peace if you are not walking according to the directives of The Holy

Spirit?

Sometimes you pray to God to give you The Holy Spirit. He is here; He is all over your body. To

get The Holy Spirit does not require prayer, or fasting because He is here with you already.

The trouble of the world is that they do not believe in the existence of The Holy Spirit. What

brings calamity, hardship, untold suffering to humanity is because The Holy Spirit has come

down to dwell with mankind but the world does not believe in Him. It is not necessary to go to

the river bank to fast and pray, calling on the name of Jesus or Elijah in order to get the Holy

Spirit. He is within you. All you need to do is to listen to Him and act according to His

instructions.

Many people complain that they are not educated and as such they cannot do The Work

of God. The Work of God does not require academic attainment. All you have to do is to listen

to The Holy Spirit. There is nothing on earth that pleases God more than for one to listen to

The Spirit and act according to His instructions. That is why we should not be noisy, we

should not fight and quarrel so that we would be able to tune into his voice when he speaks to

us.

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When you are unhappy and something disturbs your mind sit down quietly and listens

to the Holy Spirit within you and all your problems will be solved. Do not emulate others but

listen to the Holy Spirit. When someone gives you advice, do not rush and give immediate

reply, listen to the Holy Spirit for an immediate answer.

As the result of your disobedience to the dictates of The Holy Spirit, you are now

indulging in all vices. Any time you come before me you confess the same sin over and over

again simply because you do not listen to The Holy Spirit. If you listen to The Holy Spirit

within you, you will be spotless of sin, and you will make no mistakes whatsoever. If you

possess the whole world and you do not listen to The Holy Spirit what is your gain?

Conversely, if you walk according to the dictates of The Holy Spirit and the whole world is

against you know that you have gained your salvation. But I am telling you that there is

nothing you can do to please man or the world. This is so because man is never content, he is

ever demanding, and until eternity, you will never be able to satisfy man's requirements.

Ananias heard of how Saul persecuted the Church and when The Holy Spirit urged him to go

and offer prayers for Saul he argued and said, "Lord I have heard, by many, of this man how

much evil he had done to the Saints at Jerusalem and he had authority from the high priest to

bind all that call on Thy Name." But the Lord said unto him, "Go thy way for he is a chosen vessel unto me."

Be careful when The Holy Spirit directs you to deliver a vision or prophecy do not add

or subtract, give exactly as the spirit instructs you. He is the God of love, the God of peace and the God of forgiveness, whatever difficulty or problem confronts you, put it before him and

he will solve it for you.

It is pitiful and blasphemous to hear how certain people say that God will not come

down from Heaven to do a particular thing for you. If God does not come down in person to

do that particular thing for you who else do you think will do such a thing for you?

Everything you see in the world and all the events happening, thereby it is God alone who is

responsible. Whatever God does not do, nobody else can do it. The downfall of both the

Whites and the Blacks is that they do not listen to The Holy Spirit. Remember when Peter

drew his sword in defense of Our Lord Jesus Christ and Christ rebuked Peter saying:" He who

lives by the sword shall perish by the sword. I have power to pray and My Father would send

legions of angels to come and fight, but if I do so how would the glory of My Father be

manifested?

Do you not remember when King Hezekiah received a letter from the King of Assyria

that he was going to wage war with him? To this end King Hezekiah took the letter and he

placed it on the altar of God telling God in his prayers that such was direct challenge to him.

While he was praying in the altar, God sent a message to him through Prophet Isaiah that the

king of Assyria and his subjects would never set their feet in his territory. God sent one angel

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to the Assyrian camp and he destroyed the Assyrian camp while the king himself took refuge

in Nineveh.

Now in your ignorance you claim that God will not come down in person to save you

from trouble; if He will not come down who would save you, give you peace, food, life and all

the blessings you desire from Him.

FIRST BIBLE LESSON: JOHN 4:24

God is a spirit and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.

THE MANIFESTATION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IS ALWAYS AMONG THE CHILDREN OF GOD:

The Holy Spirit is the only source by which we can please God. God is a spirit and He is

in you, He is in your house, and He is omnipresent. The spirit is an entity, which is, present

everywhere. He hears our utterances, confidential conversations, and He knows our hearts'

meditation though He remains invisible. At times we do certain things claiming that God

does not see us, not knowing that we are deceiving ourselves.

Even where no human being had ever been, like in the sun, God exists there. It is not

the building of magnificent buildings for God, nor going along the street shouting Jesus!

Jesus! It is neither going from house to house preaching Jesus that would bring us salvation.

Salvation is gained by listening to the Holy Spirit. It is when we sit down quietly and listen to

the instructions of the Holy Spirit and act upon them and then we get the desired peace and

salvation. The scripture says, "Today if you hear His voice harden not your hearts." Today The Holy Spirit can call upon you to go to the hospital to offer prayers for the sick ones, do not

resist. Sometimes we do certain things unconsciously and if we are asked to explain the

reason for such actions we cannot explain. Therefore let us surrender ourselves entirely to

the control of The Holy Spirit.

Do not think of what you will eat or what you will wear. Do not say that people do not

love you or that you are an orphan or a widow or that you have no relations. Brethren, do you

not know that The Spirit that dwells in you is your mother, father, and all in all for you. Let us not doubt the existence of The Holy Spirit as Thomas did. He said that he would not believe

that Our Lord Jesus Christ was resurrected until he sees Him with his naked eyes and puts his

hands in the wounds, before he would believe. Did you not know that God is a spirit and all

those who worship Him must do so in spirit and in truth? The disciples told Thomas of the

resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ but he did not believe until Our Lord Jesus Christ

appeared unto him and told him to come and thrust his finger into His wounds. Our Lord

Jesus Christ remarked, "Blessed is the man who does not see and yet believes."

Abraham worshipped God in spirit and in truth. That was what moved him to try to

sacrifice his only son Isaac to God. Why did Sarah push Ishmael, the son of a slave woman,

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out of her house? It was The Holy Spirit who instructed her. When Abraham returned and

was informed of the incident he was infuriated but The Spirit instructed him not to be

annoyed because it was the wish of The Spirit that they should be expelled from the family,

rather Abraham should bless them.

Brethren as you have heard this sermon if you listen to the Holy Spirit within you, your joy

will be eternal.

Somebody may offend you and immediately you are about to get annoyed, if you stop

to listen to the still small voice of The Holy Spirit within you, He will be telling you to love

your enemies. You will therefore not be annoyed any more. If your property gets lost, and you

are worried, just knock your head on the ground and the Holy Spirit will console you. If you

read The Holy Bible from Genesis to Revelation daily, you will never forsake sin of any form

until you listen to The Holy Spirit, which is within you. The flesh is always proud but the Holy

Spirit is humble and gives peace. Brethren you have been in Brotherhood for so many years

say for twenty years or more and you have not got what you wanted. This is because you do

not walk according to the directives of The Holy Spirit for all those who walk according to the

directives of the Holy Spirit are given the power to be sons of God. What will The Holy Spirit

teach you? He will teach you to forsake the vices of your former life. Flesh and blood cannot

preach the gospel to any person except the Holy Spirit is in him. That is why Our Lord Jesus

Christ said:

"I have many things to tell you but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when The Spirit

of Truth is come He will guide you unto all truth; for He shall not speak of Himself, but

whatsoever He shall hear that shall He speak and He will show you things to come."

SECOND BIBLE LESSON: GALATIANS 5:16

This then I say, walk in the spirit and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

THE POWERFUL WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

He who does not walk according to the directives of The Holy Spirit would not be able to

please God. If we live according to the desires of the flesh we are bound to die. For the flesh

indulges in adultery, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulation, wrath,

strife, sedition, heresies, envy, murder, drunkenness and other vices. If we walk in spirit we

will not do those things that we know do not please The Holy Spirit, but we will only be doing

things that are pleasing to The Holy Spirit.

Many people say, I want to do the work of God, I want to do spiritual work." what is the

work of God and what is spiritual work? The work of God and spiritual work depend on how

you obey the Holy Spirit, which is within you. If you are directed by the spirit of God you

cannot commit any sin. You keep requesting God to give you wealth and other material

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things. What is your gain if you possess all these things and yet you lose your soul in hell

fire? Have you remembered the story of the young rich man and how he built a store filled

with wealth and said to himself, my soul come and rest and enjoy, but God said to him thou

fool, thy soul is demanded of thee. Then who shall enjoy all this wealth he acquired? It is

exactly like the man who amassed all the wealth of this world but does not listen to The Spirit.

God is a master who sends someone on an errand and goes before and behind him. When He

sent Ananias to Saul he also communicated to Saul that Ananias was coming to him. Also

when He sent Cornelius to Peter He in turn informed Peter that Cornelius was coming to him.

Before The Holy Spirit directs you to go to a particular place He had already

communicated with such a person before your arrival thus you experience no difficulty. The

Holy Spirit can move you to go around these premises while you are sick.

Know that whenever you obey without complaining you will be well. There is nothing The

Holy Spirit will direct you to do that will bring shame and disgrace to you. If we love

ourselves and our lives, let us walk according to the directives of The Holy Spirit. He will

reveal everything in Heaven to you. If you listen to The Holy Spirit you will not have any

problems nor encounter any stumbling block in your life, in this world. The flesh and its

desires fight against The Spirit. The Spirit on the other hand wages war against the flesh.

(Galatians 5:17-18) Do you think the flesh will stand the battle of The Holy Spirit? When you

hear of the War of Armageddon, it is the battle of the spirit and the flesh. This is the reason

there is fighting everywhere.

Right from this moment, if you listen to The Holy Spirit you are living with God. It is

clear that it is not a man, who recommends himself, who is approved by he whom God

recommends. This is the time to please Our Creator alone. If you do not please the Holy Spirit

it means you are not his beloved child and you cannot live. Our First Bible Lesson stated that

God is a spirit and those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth. The

Second Bible Lesson advised us to walk in spirit because if we walk in The Spirit we would not

please the flesh. The children of this Kingdom walk by The Spirit and so please do not do

anything by your own volition, do not beat your chest and say, "I am." there is no reason to seek advice from anybody nor should we ask anybody to direct us because we have God who

is prepared to instruct, teach, and lead us to the wisdom of the truth.

GOLDEN TEXT: ACTS 10:19-21

While Peter thought on the vision, The Spirit said unto him, Behold, three men seek thee.

Arise therefore, and get thee down, and go with them, doubting nothing: for I have sent

them. Then Peter went down to the men, which were sent onto him from Cornelius; and said,

Behold, I am he whom ye seek: what is the cause wherefore ye are come?

Brethren, the lesson you have heard is impossible for a carnal man to practice. This

very text created confusion among the Apostles of old because when Our Lord Jesus Christ

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was on earth in His First Advent, He did not direct His apostles to go unto the Gentiles. This is

a proof that without The Holy Spirit the whole world would be lost.

After His death and resurrection, He instructed His Apostles to go and look for the lost

sheep of the House of Israel that is the Israelites only. When they went out on ministry work,

they inquired to know if any Israelite was at the location they had arrived at, just as the

churches who when they are on evangelical work, inquire to know about the whereabouts of

only their church members. Note that Cornelius was a Gentile who traditionally had nothing

in common with the Israelites. But The Holy Spirit directed Peter, an Israelite, to go and

preach The Gospel of God to him. Until dooms day, The Gospel of God could not have been

preached to the Gentiles, but for the intercession of The Holy Spirit.

Before this time Peter had a dream in which he saw four-footed animals and he was

instructed to kill and eat. He refused and replied the voice that instructed him that he had

never eaten anything unclean. When Peter was disconnected from that revelation and was

contemplating on the manner of the revelation, and immediately there was a tap on his door,

and it was the servants sent by Cornelius. God is love, God of all virtues.

HE HAS COME TO DWELL WITH MAN IN HUMAN FORM IN ORDER TO UNITE THE WHOLE

WORLD IN LOVE AND ONENESS

If Peter had been asked, at gun point, to go to the Gentiles, especially to Cornelius, he

would never have agreed to accept the assignment, for the simple reason that Cornelius was

a Gentile. When The Holy Spirit asked Peter to go to the Gentiles, Peter went because he

believed in The Holy Spirit.

From this illustration you will realize that the Holy Spirit does not send one to places

where one likes, he will send one to places one hates or to places where one thinks one's life

might be in danger of destruction. Here in this fold, why do visionaries direct people to go on

missionary journey to bethels and not to places where the gospel of God had not yet been

received? If we listen to the directives of the Holy Spirit we will be able to overcome all the

vices of this world. Our lord Jesus Christ and all the apostles walked in spirit. But today we do

not want to listen to the directives of the Holy Spirit. There was a place Paul went, and he was

afraid, but the Holy Spirit assured him that he would not have any problems there.

Our lord Jesus Christ went to Jerusalem not because he liked going there. Paul also

went to Jerusalem after which the Holy Spirit had revealed to him the impending

imprisonment, which awaited him there. The Holy Spirit does not hide anything from you

but if you exercise fear, you are sure to meet your doom.

Why do you tell people to come to Brotherhood in order to have money, children, and

work? Is that all? Are you directed by The Spirit or flesh to make such proclamation? Our Lord

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Jesus Christ said, "Whoever does not take his cross and come after me is not worthy to be My

Disciple." He also said, "Whoever does not hate his mother, father, husband, wife, children and himself is not worthy to be My Disciple." Why then do you go about asking people to come

to Brotherhood for material things? Whatever we do let us listen to The Holy Spirit and act

exactly as He directs. Let us not add or subtract.

Many of you in the out stations undertake your personal business after you have

vowed to work for God. Note that you are deceiving nobody but yourself. In fact you are doing

more harm than good to yourself. The Holy Spirit is urging you to go the hospital in order to

offer prayers for the sick, visit the prisoners and console them, but you refuse. Instead you

remain in your bethels and you continue to sleep. When you listen to The Holy Spirit, you

have no room for gossiping and fornication.

Our Lord Jesus Christ said, "My father worketh, hitherto I work." The Holy Spirit in our midst works around the clock but you who profess to do The Work of God remain a sleeping

dog in the different bethels. The Holy Spirit does not approve of bethels. Don't you see how

you jingle the bell for morning service but you find nobody to attend. I told you emphatically

since the year 1974 that there is no question of bethels in the work of God but instead you

build magnificent bethels and you say, "This is my bethel."

Remember that God had prophesied in the mouth of the prophets: "howbeit the most

high dwelleth not in temples made by hands as said the prophets, heaven is my throne and

the earth my footstool, but what house will ye build me? Said the lord, or what is the place of

my rest? Ye stiff neck and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy

Ghost as your fathers did, so do ye." but now every bethel embarks on a building project.

Therefore brethren, it is incumbent upon every one of us to act according to the dictates of

The Holy Spirit for the true worshippers of God worship him in spirit and in truth. I will not

be tedious unto you. Those who have ears let them hear. May The Lord Bless His Holy Words.

Amen.

THANK YOU FATHER

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FORGIVENESS

FIRST LESSON: LUKE 23:34

Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. And they parted His

raiment, and cast lots.

2ND LESSON: LUKE 17:4

And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turns again to

thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him.

GOLDEN TEXT: MATTHEW 18:35

So likewise shall My Heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not

every one his brother their trespasses.

Today is set aside for "forgiveness of sins." You have heard what Our Lord Jesus Christ

said on the Cross ‘Father forgive them, for they know not what they do’ The Word of God is a

double-edged sword. When it goes forward it takes action and on coming back it

accomplishes its deeds. It is said that if we forgive not our brothers when they offend us, our

Heavenly Father will not forgive our sins.

FORGIVE AND YOU WILL BE FORGIVEN

The reason that people do not enjoy the grace of Our Lord Jesus Christ is that they have

refused to forgive those who offend them. The statement, which He made when He said:

Father forgive them for they know not what they do, applies to those who do not impute sins,

unto others. If we no longer impute sins unto others, the statement will then apply to us. That

is why our Second Lesson tells you that if your brother offends you seven times in a day and

turns each time and asks for forgiveness, you should forgive him. When you forgive him, you

can be sure that the First Lesson applies to you: The Father will also forgive you your sins.

Until eternity, God will not impute sin on you again.

FORGIVE YOUR DEBTORS

As the heaven is higher than the earth, so is the wisdom of God greater than that of

men. It is only man who can err, God can never err. Have you heard what He has said? "Father

forgive them for they know not what they do." If you have known that God has forgiven your

sins but you refuse to forgive another person his sins that is the sin of presumption. If God

forgives you all your sins but you do not forgive your brother who offends against you, what

is your stand? How would you offer The Lord’s Prayer? The Wisdom of God says forgive us

our trespasses as we forgive those that trespass against us. Have you forgiven those who

trespass against you? It is recorded in Matthew 6:12, and forgive us our debts, as we forgive

our debtors. Have you forgiven your debtors?

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DO NOT IMPUTE SINS

That is why our Golden Text says, so likewise shall my Heavenly Father do also unto

you, if ye from your hearts forgive not everyone his brother their trespasses. What does it

cost you to forgive your brother his sins and have eternal life? Can you not see that it is not in your brother’s interest to forgive him, but it is rather in your own interest to forgive him? If

we forgive others their sins against us even as God has forgiven us, we are free. If you do not

impute sin unto others God will not impute sin unto you. But if you impute sin unto others,

He will also impute sins unto you. God does not take pleasure in the death of sinners. He

rather wishes that all of us should repent and come to salvation. If when you repent, God

forgives you, why is it that somebody repents but you fail to forgive him? You have been told

that right from Adam till eternity there is no righteous person. God is the only righteous one;

the rest of us have fallen away. Christ knew this, that is why He said Father forgive them for

they know not what they do. This statement applies to all those who do not impute sins unto

others. God also does not impute sin unto them.

REPENT AND ASK FOR FORGIVENESS

All those who continue to impute sin unto others are lost; because they cannot pray

and ask God to forgive their trespasses as they have forgiven those who trespass against

them. Have you forgiven those who trespass against you those who do not impute sin unto

others have the boldness to pray that God should forgive their sins even as they had forgiven

others? God will also forgive you. He is the person making this statement: that if your brother

offends against you seven times in a day and turns around each time and asks for

forgiveness, you should forgive him. That is the direct statement of God, in order that

whenever you offend against God and ask for forgiveness, he may forgive you. It is said that

with what measure you use unto others, the same shall be measured unto you. It is said, all of

us shall stand before the judgment seat of Christ. Do not think that it is your father or mother

or Our Lord Jesus Christ who will judge you. It is you, who will judge yourself. Why is it that

somebody has offended against you for the past two or five or seven years and has asked for

forgiveness, but you swear that you will never forgive him? You should know that you have

perished and that person is saved because he has asked for forgiveness.

FORGIVE ALL WHO REPENT

What kind of sin can someone commit and ask for forgiveness and you refuse to

forgive? There is no exception to the kind of offence that should be forgiven. But it is said if

your brother sins against you seven times and turns around each time and asks for

forgiveness, you should forgive him?

What is there in the world? What kind of sin would you not eagerly forgive so that you

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may have peace? If God forgives us all our sins, why should we not forgive those who offend

us? How do you offer The Lord’s Prayer? Do you pray like that Pharisee? Do you not pray that

God should forgive you because you are a sinner? Do you forgive those who sin against you?

This has been our problem. That is why God calls us here every day so that He may take away

the little faults that bring about our fall. Can you realize how God loves us: He was nailed to

the Cross and He said "Father forgive them for they know not what they do." What can your brother do that you would nail him on the Cross? Can you not realize that God loves man

more than man loves himself? Can you not see that God does not like the death of sinners?

God does not like to see us suffer. And so whoever perishes, his blood is upon him. He has

taught us that we should not impute sins unto others because He does not impute sin on us.

Let us go home with this lesson that it is not the sin of Adam or of your father or of

your forefathers that is responsible for your sufferings but that you as a man have failed to

forgive those who offend against you. Why it is that somebody offends against you in a very

little matter but you vow never to forgive him; you shut your ears to all pleas and

mediations? When you yourself offend against God, who will forgive you? The children of

God do not bear any person malice. They do not impute sin unto any person. They do not

backbite against any person because they know that when they forgive others, The Father

will also forgive them and they will have peace. Your taking court actions against people does

not avail much. Whatever sin somebody commits against you and asks for forgiveness

should be over. There should be no more statement forever. Our Lord Jesus Christ has laid the

foundation of mercy for us. In the words of a spiritual chorus, you should forgive others and

you yourself will be forgiven. We cursed Him; we abused Him and spat on Him. Finally, we

nailed Him to the Cross and yet He prayed ‘Father forgive them for they know not what they

do’ is that not enough lesson for you? In your case, who has nailed you on the Cross? Who has

abused you? Who has done to you half of what was done to Christ? If all these things were

done to Our Lord Jesus Christ and He prayed The Father to forgive them, you should also

forgive those who offend against you.

THE KEY TO LIFE AND DEATH

Whoever does not forgive his brother has no share in this Kingdom. This is the very last

Word of God, which holds the key of life and death. And so that God should not impute those

sins unto them, you are told to love your enemies and pray for them because they are your

hindrance. Right now, if the whole world accepts this teaching and forgives one another, we

are all in heaven. It is not the sins that you commit which hinder you from entering into

heaven, but the fact that you have refused to forgive those who sin against you. At all times,

God honors His words. He is the Word and so He honors Himself. You will realize that all the

inhabitants of the world are sinners. God knows this and has forgiven us. But He has given us

a condition that as He has forgiven us, we should also not impute sins unto others.

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The sins, which people commit against you, do not make you perish; but the sins,

which you refuse to forgive others, make you perish. He knows everyone of us and our make.

What you love, I do not love and what you hate, I love. And so the world is full of

contradictions and sins. God knows about this but He has given us a condition that if your

brother offends against you seven times and turns and asks for forgiveness each time, you

should forgive him. What is not sinful to you is sinful to another person. What is good to you

is evil to another person. What one town loves, the other town does not love. The result is that

we have no peace. Our Lord Jesus Christ gave us His peace and so the children of God must be

the children of peace. Let our First Lesson be read:

FIRST LESSON: LUKE 23: 34

"Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. And they parted His

raiment, and cast lots."

After analyzing this statement would you accept that we know what we are doing?

When God came down to the earth and people cursed Him and killed Him, do you think that

they knew what they were doing? When they spat on Him and asked Him to mention who has

slapped Him, do you think they knew what they were doing? When they called Him

Beelzebub, mad man, The Son of Mary, did they know what they were doing? They did not.

ALWAYS PRAY FOR FORGIVENESS

Now that we continue to steal and fornicate would you say that we know what we are

doing? We do not know ourselves. As the worldly people call Brotherhood Beelzebub and

mermaid and juju, do you think that they know what they are doing? God will forgive

whatever sin you commit but if you do not forgive your brother when he offends against you,

then you stand condemned. This is The Gospel of Redemption. Right from today, do not

impute sins unto any person. No matter what happens, pray that The Father should forgive

them for they know not what they do. What has brought about your tribulations, afflictions

and death is that you have shut the door of mercy against your brother. As you are here, is

there any person who has not something against another person? That is your death. That is

what has stopped you from entering into this Kingdom.

SINCE WE DO NOT KNOW WHAT WE DO, WE SHOULD ALWAYS BE FORGIVING

Has The Father not told you to forgive others their sins, no matter what they do to you?

Has He not told us openly that if we do not forgive our brothers when they offend against us,

He will not forgive us when we offend against Him? He says today, when you hear His voice,

harden not your hearts. That was why when Stephen was stoned; he prayed that God should

not lay that sin to their charge. Do not always offer, the kind of prayers which David, the

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Psalmist prayed — that God should fight against those who fight against him. If you offer

that kind of prayer, you are lost; you have heaped punishment upon yourself. Your prayer at

all times should be: Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.

The person who calumniates that you kill and drink human blood would you say that

he knows what he is saying? That person who says that you are worshipping man and that

you are false prophets, does he know himself? Does he know what he is saying?

GOD DOES NOT IMPUTE SIN ON ANYONE

God has forgiven us all our sins, but if you fail to forgive those who sin against you,

you have perished. You have heard the statement, which He made, that whoever speaks

against The Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks evil against The Holy Spirit will

not be forgiven neither in this world nor in the world to come. When Paul did not know Our

Lord Jesus Christ and went about persecuting the church, did he know what he was doing, he

received authority from the High Priests in Jerusalem to go to Damascus and arrest whoever

calls on The Name of The Lord Jesus Christ. And when he arrested them he either killed or

stoned or imprisoned them according to the orders given to him. He took it upon himself as a

special assignment. When his eyes were opened to the truth, he said that he did those things

when he did not yet believe, but God forgave him. And when we do something wrong, God

overlooks it because He knows that we are men. The condition is that if somebody offends

against you, you must forgive him. If God were to impute sins to us from the time of Adam,

the world itself would have ceased to exist.

THE WISDOM OF THE WORLD IS FOOLISHNESS BEFORE GOD

We are sinful in our looks. We are sinful with the words of our mouths. We are sinful

in our thoughts. We are sinful in our footsteps. There is nothing good in us whatsoever, but

The Father forgives us because we do not know what we are doing. Is it not a thing of pity that

right from Adam, there is no person who believes in God, there is none who keeps his words;

but He has always forgiven us because He knows our frailty. He does not bother Himself. He

does not seek to be known, but He knows us. He has given you the injunction, that you should

forgive your brother whenever he sins against you. Upon all your striving to go to the moon

and the depth of the ocean, in search of God, have you been endowed with this wisdom? The

Word of God says that whoever thinks he is wise according to this world’s standard should

count himself as a fool in order to be wise. Because the wisdom of this world is foolishness

before God. He catches the wise in his craftiness. Man knows nothing at all and the entire

world is but empty. God knows that we are empty. The so-called learned men do not believe

that God exists. They have gone to the moon and to the sun but cannot find God and so they

conclude that He does not exist, and that you are entertaining a superstitious belief. They do

not even believe in dreams. But God has forgiven them because they know not what they are

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doing. God does not input this sin on man.

MAN IS NEVER AWARE OF HIS ACTIONS

We sometimes go to somebody and tell them to prepare us a prospective charm and he

will go to the market and buy a ring. He gives this to you and advises you to call on it

whenever you are in difficulty and it will save you. Does this person know himself? When you

go to some villages, you will see shrines and idols around the place.

Do the people know what they are doing? Do you know that it is God who protects us?

Do you know that it is God who feeds us? Those who are taken to the hospital it is God who

heals them. He does all these but does not bandy words with you, because that is how He

wants it. He does not seek to be known. He gives us food and life, He is The Doer of everything

but who knows Him? There is none. He has forgiven us because we do not know what we do.

God is not concerned with the sins we commit, whether we bow down to stones or rings or

charms does, not bother Him a bit. He is not interested in what we do. But He has given us

this injunction that if our brother sins against us seven times in a day and turns each time

and asks for forgiveness, we should forgive him. That is what He wants.

IF YOU WANT PEACE FORGIVE ALL YOUR ADVERSARIES

Do you think a thief knows what he is doing? Do you think that necromancers and

murderers know what they are doing? There is no person who knows what he is doing. That is

why God does not impute any sin unto you. But one point is clear, if you do not forgive your

brother when he offends against you, you will perish. Somebody has filled his house with all

sorts of charms and preparations of concoctions, but he continues to be sick and his

concoctions and charms cannot heal him. He is beset with problems all around. He is lacking

in everything and knows every woe. Do you think that he knows what he is doing? Somebody

has filled his house with money but he had no life. He is sick. He is beset with all sorts or

problems. He has no peace. He has no joy and his money cannot save him. Do you think that

he knows what he is doing? Finally, we brought nothing into this world and it is certain we

shall not go away with anything. What kind of wrong would somebody do to you that you

cannot forgive him? Brethren, I do not want to take you further, let our Second Lesson be

read. Open your ears and hear because this is The Key of Life. All those who have offended

you right from your childhood, you have to forgive all of them right from today so that you

may have peace.

2ND LESSON: LUKE 17: 4

And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turns again to

thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him."

Now that you are saying that witches will be burnt by fire, thieves and murderers will

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all be burnt by fire, who then will remain? When you see a thief in any gathering, you begin

to ask what a thief wants in that kind of gathering. What a murderer wants there? I ask, what

about you; what are you and what do you want there? Think about it: we have gone round to

all the native doctors, There is no sin which we have not been on the forefront But God has

forgiven us all our sins.

CONDITION OF FORGIVENESS BY GOD

You say that this person has perished, the other person has lost. There is no person who

is lost except the person who fails to forgive his brother his sins. Even though it is God who is

doing all these works, who among us believe that it is God who is doing this work? Who

among you believe, that it is God who gives vision and prayers? No matter what we do —

whether we steal and fight and fornicate, God forgives us because He knows that we do not

know what we are doing. Can you observe the fathomable of His Wisdom? Many of you

complain that you have sinned and you doubt whether God will forgive such a sin. What kind

of sin is there which God will not forgive when He knows that you do not know what you do?

There is no sin, which God imputes on you. The only condition is that if your brother sins

against you seven times and turns each time and asks for forgiveness, you should forgive

him.

UPON THE SINFUL STATE OF THE WORLD, GOD SENT HIS BELOVED SON

If God did not love the world, how could He send His Only Begotten Son to come and die

for us? Why God sent down His Son was that He should come and redeem us. Man had never

wanted God, and life was rife with theft, murder, prostitution and all evils. We were quite

satisfied in our sinful state and that was our heaven. No person looked for God. And, when

Our Lord Jesus Christ came, no person regarded Him; yet still He said, Father forgive them for

they know not what they do. That is why Christ said "I thank You Father, Lord of Heaven and

Earth for thou hast hidden these things from the wise and the prudent and has revealed

them unto babes; yea, Father for such is Thy Will. All things are given unto Me by My Father,

no person knows The Father except The Son, and no person knows The Son except The Father

and to whomsoever The Son will reveal Himself unto.

Can you see why God refers to man as sheep among all the beasts? You know that of all

the animals, the sheep is the most stupid. You stay here and fight before the altar. You stay

here and do all sorts of things but I do not budge, because you do not know what you are

doing. Even if you spit on my face, I will resent not. Your problem is that if your brother

offends against you seven times in one day and turns each time and asks for forgiveness, you

do not forgive him. But you should forgive him. You should not impute any sin on him. The

hen is more intelligent than the sheep. The goat and every other animal down to the ant are

wiser than the sheep. The sheep is very stupid and that is man.

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What offence has man committed against you? You have committed adultery with

somebody’s wife but when somebody lies with your wife, you vow that you will never forgive

him and that till doomsday you will not exchange greetings with him. It then means that

until you die, no person will exchange greetings with you. You have borrowed money from

somebody and have not refunded it. Somebody borrows money from you and cannot pay

back. You swear never to forgive him for what he has done to you. It means that you have

perished because you are owing somebody some amount. You have to forgive him and let us

continue to remain sheepish. God does not want us to know anything. He wants us to

continue in this sheepish condition. He is speaking and doing everything. People are going to

space in search of him but He laughs and does not lay it to our charge. He regards us as His

puppets and He delights in this that we do not know Him. We try as much as we can to please

God; but what can you do to please Him? He is always happy and pleased with Himself

because He knows that we are sheep.

STOP SEARCHING FOR GOD

If we knew what we are doing, would you backslide from church worship because God

has refused to grant you a certain request? If you do not go to church again what is that to

God? If we knew ourselves, we would know His Word because His Word is truth. If you have

been one who has been searching for God, do not search for Him again. The injunction He has

given is that if your brother offends against you seven times in a day and turns to you each

time and asks for forgiveness, you should forgive. Right from today do not impute sin unto

any person no matter what he does. When you do this you are free. You will have peace and

salvation. If you do not impute sins anymore unto others, you will be walking in the light and

there is no darkness for you. You have peace all the time. That is freedom. As long as you do

not impute sin unto others, God does not impute sin on you. Whatever a person, does to you

forgive him; do not impute sin again unto others. The Word of God says that I am convinced

that nothing is evil in itself but to him that esteems it as evil, it is evil to him. Brethren, I do not intend to take you further than this, let our Golden Text be read.

GOLDEN TEXT: MATTHEW 18:35

So likewise shall My Heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not

everyone his brother their trespasses.

God says that He will repay you because vengeance is His. He vindicates the child and

the female and the aged and the orphan. He vindicates all. In like manner whoever does not

forgive his brother God will not forgive him. Whether you like to fast and pray, if you like,

refrain from fornication, but as long as you do not forgive your brother, God will not forgive

you.

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FORGIVE YOUR BROTHER HIS TRESPASSES

Distribute all your money to the poor. Feed the hungry. Fast and prostrate on the

ground, but as long as you do not forgive your brother, He will not also forgive you your sins.

God will forgive you every sin, but if you do not forgive others, He will not forgive you your

sin. Have you heard the text of today? Father forgive them, for they know not what they are

doing. Forever and ever those who do not forgive will not know what they do. God has

forgiven all our sins, because we do not know what we are doing. Forever and ever He has

forgiven our sins. He has told us that if your brother offends against you seven times in a day

and turns to you for forgiveness seven times, you should forgive him. Do not charge him one

kobo. Do not be angry with him. Do not recall the matter again. This is the judgment and the

Gospel of Redemption. If you do not forgive your brother his sins, your Father in heaven will

also not forgive you forever and ever. Brethren, it is said that one stroke of the cane is

sufficient unto the wise. I will not take you further. He, who has ears to hear, let him hear.

May The Lord bless His Holy Words. Amen.

THANK YOU FATHER

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THE MAN YOU SHOULD NOT PUT UP WITH

GoldenText:1 Corinthians 5: 13

“Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person."

My dear brethren, Do you know that right within you is the wicked one that has been

tormenting you all these years? You cannot see him, yet he is there. This wicked one goes

about masked, changing like a chameleon, and is more pestering than any fly or mosquito.

The question now is not whether you like to harbor this wicked man, for nobody would. When

you recognize him in one form, he changes into another, even more dangerous. In this

gospel, this wicked man is going to be revealed. The safety and happiness of the whole world

lies in her ability to recognize and get rid of this wicked man. Now examine yourself and see

whether you have the spirit of drunkenness, pride, stubbornness, annoyance, fornication,

greed and lust after worldly things. If you retain any of these, you have willfully harbored the

wicked man to your own ruin. You are putting up with a Judas, and if you must not be

doomed, you must remove him.

ARE YOU UNHAPPY? SEARCH YOURSELF

If you are unhappy, search yourself, and you will see that one of the above named bad

spirits is behind it all. You may not like to offend your brother, but the wicked man in you

forces you to. Our duty on earth is to remove this wicked man anywhere and in any form he

exists.

HE APPEARS IN MANY FORMS

Recognize him just now. He is the wicked man who gives you bad advice, makes you to

commit murder, spoils your good name, causes illness and death. He can use any person or

thing as an instrument to ruin you. You are advised to remove such a person. Even if she is

your mother, father or child, husband or wife, or a spirit that refuses to please God, even an

angel that does not obey God. Anything that is a stumbling block to a brother is that wicked

person.

REFUSE ADVICE FROM EVIL SPIRITS

People like to take any advice; once it is given by the Spirit. But I am telling you to

refuse any advice from any spirit that is not in accordance with the gospel of Our Lord Jesus

Christ. There are many evil spirits that go about deceiving people. They say that The Holy

Spirit is not in existence. They believe in necromancer and medicines.

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ANGER IS EVIL

There are spirits, which tell you that fornication is no sin. These are not The Spirit of

God. They should be removed from among you for they are the wicked ones. Do not be

contented with removing only some of the evil acts; remove all. Anger is an evil act, it is very

abnormal. See how queer some angry people are. Some do not get cross the moment they are

abused, but unexpectedly fall out with anybody who may happen to praise them. Anger

misplaces values. It can turn any good thing into evil. It should therefore be removed at all

costs. The tongue is dangerous when wrongly used. Some people show kindness, but go about

broadcasting how useless and hopeless the person they help is - mockingly talking about that

person's poverty. Some people follow up their kindness with abuses. They use their kindness

as a license to treat anybody anyhow. When kindness becomes a license to abuse, it is no

more kindness but sin. Let us therefore try our best to remove the wicked man in whatever

form we may find him so that we may be in peace with each other. The wicked man is

responsible for all bad government and political chaos, and his ultimate removal is the only

way to peace as illustrated in the story that follows:

ILLUSTRATION

Three children came from three neighboring cities to travel in a second-class train.

They were the sons of kings. During a short introduction, they discovered that they were of

the same age, started schooling the same year. They did not tell one another their destination.

But they were surprised to find themselves alighting from the train at the same station. They

were still more surprised to find that, they were going to the same house belonging to the

headmaster who had served in the cities they came from. They knew this was with a purpose,

but they could not say anything till it was proved. After welcoming them into his house, the

headmaster asked the first boy: Has your father learned to be patient now? He asked the

second boy breathlessly: "Has your father learned to finish any work he started?" And the third: "Has your father done away with stubbornness"? Seeing that these were the true

characters of their father, these boys were very much ashamed so much that they went out

and wept bitterly. Weeping was useless. One of them came up with an idea. He called the rest

together and suggested that the boy whose father was never patient should go by the name

Patience: the one whose father would never accomplish the work he started be named

Accomplishment and the one whose father was stubborn go by the name Obedience. They all

decided to come home and call the meeting of the three cities for the first time in history.

With the facts of their experience, they convinced the people. They asked the three old kings

to step down for them. This was done.

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PEACE AND PROGRESS EVERYWHERE

These cities enjoyed peace and progress under the new young kings. Those who were

exiled through the wickedness of the old kings returned to enjoy freedom. Other towns that

had seceded in time of bad government returned to enjoy during the new peaceful regime.

ONLY KINDNESS CAN DRIVE AWAY WICKEDNESS

Therefore brethren, let us use good deeds to drive away bad ones. For only by so doing

can we drive away the wicked person that is in our midst. Let us resist the desires of the flesh.

Let us walk by The Spirit. If you do this, the wicked person is out already, and you are free.

May God Bless His Holy Words. Amen.

Everlasting gospel delivered by the Holy Father, the supernatural teacher and the sole

spiritual head of the universe leader Olumba Olumba Obu

THANK YOU FATHER

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REPENTANCE

1ST LESSON LUKE 5:32

I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

2nd LESSON LUKE 15:7

I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repented, more than

over ninety-nine just persons, which need no repentance.

GOLDEN TEXT MATTHEW 11:20-21

Then began He to upbraid the cities wherein most of His Mighty Works were done, because

they repented not: Woe unto thee, Chorazin! Woe unto thee, Bethsaida! For if the mighty

works which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented

long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

Can you not realize the mind of the Charity? You argue that you cannot discern the

mind of another. I say you can. He said, I came not to call the righteous but sinners to

repentance. His contention is that after healing any person of his sickness, he should forsake

sin. When He gives them bread and preaches The Word of God to them, they should forsake

sins. Why He preached The Word of God and healed people free of charge and did many

mighty works was to induce them to repent and forsake sins.

PECULIAR CHARACTERISTICS OF HUMAN BEINGS

It is said that two things take a bird to the stream, to bath and to drink. If somebody

comes to your house, there is a reason for his coming. He expects something from you. We all

have our own weaknesses. You can curse someone and he does not get angry because that is

not his weak point. You can call someone a thief and he will not retort. You say that he is a

good man. But he is not a good man. He has his own weak point. There is something that will

cause him to flare up the moment you prick him. His source of anger may arise when

somebody speaks evil about his father or his mother. Others are angry when you say they are

thieves. Others are ready to forgive whoever owes them money; but he will tell you that any

day that somebody meddles with his wife, he will terminate the person's life. And so if you

owe him and he does not bother you, you will say that he is a very good man. I am telling you

that he is not. If you go and touch his wife, he will break his head for you.

MEN'S IGNORANCE OF GOD'S REQUIREMENTS

It is the same thing with God. God desires that we should repent. When God feeds us,

protects us, heals us, He is doing this because He wants to induce us to forsake sins. Do you

not see that all those who argue that God does not require anything from them are lying?

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God wants many things from us. God is not a fool to heal us free of charge, feed us and do

many good works for us; He is expecting certain things from us. If somebody tells you that he

is doing a certain thing for you gratis, he is telling a lie, there is something he expects. Our

problem is that we do not know what God requires from us. That is why after healing our

sickness we go back to commit sin. He saves us but we will continue in sin. Upon all the good

things that God has bestowed on us, we still indulge in sin.

GOD'S INDUCEMENT

Who told you that God does not require anything from us? He said, I came not to call

the righteous but the sinners to repentance. The reason He loves sinners is that sinners my

repent, why He tolerates us and bestows good things on us is that we may repent. Because He

does not rejoice over the death of the wicked. Sometimes He reveals Himself to you,

sometimes He speaks to you, sometimes He gives you the ability at other times He bestows

good things on you. He does all these things so that you may repent. He heals us free of

charge. He takes all our problems, protects us, reveals Himself to us, converses with us and

does everything to us so that we may repent. For all the good things God does for us, He

expects this one thing: that we should forsake sins.

GOD REQUIRES THAT WE SHOULD ABSTAIN FROM SINS

Let no person again express that God does not require anything from us because this is

not true. If He did not require anything from us, why would He give us life, husband, wife,

money, children and all the good things of life? Have you ever seen a bird attracted to an

unripe palm fruit? Why we offend God every second is that we do not know His mind.

Everyday you complain that you do not know what you can do for God. God wants you to

forsake sins. God requires neither gold, nor money nor food, nor houses but He wants you to

repent and forsake sins. That is all God requires from us. Why God reveals Himself to you in

the dream, in the world, speaks with you and does many things for you is that you may

forsake sins.

MAN ONLY LACKS RIGHTEOUSNESS

If after God has revealed Himself to you, has healed your sickness, has solved all your

problems and has taken away your difficulties, and you refuse to forsake sins, your last state

will be worse than the beginning. There is nothing that man lacks except righteousness. The

only good that you can do to your fellow man is to make him forsake sin. Giving money,

house or motor car to someone does not save him, the only good that he can profit from you,

is to make him refrain from sin. Whoever converts a sinner from his evil way has saved his

soul, and will save himself. If somebody is a drunkard and you stop him from drinking, you

have done a great thing for him because you have saved his soul. If someone is a sorcerer or a

necromancer and you remove him from these evil practices, you have saved his soul. If you

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convert a fornicator from his evil ways, you have saved his soul and you have done a very

useful thing to him. No matter how much money you give to God, no matter how much food

you present to him, no matter the amount or the number of children you have, these do not

please God. What pleases God is that you should forsake sins and follow Him. If you have a

child and you name him after God, you call her Mary, this does not please God. All that God

wants is that you should forsake sins. If you like to pay your tithe in the millions, if you like

to build houses from here to London and surrender them to God, these acts do not please God.

Repent and forsake sins because this is what is pleasing to God. Whoever wants to please God

should forsake sins.

THE PURPOSE OF THE LORD'S VISITATION

Why did Our Lord Jesus Christ come down to earth? He came so that we might forsake

sins. God wanted to destroy the world because of sin but Christ volunteered to come and shed

His blood, so that we may repent. And so whoever does not repent has a double punishment

because you have crucified Christ the second time and exposed Him to an open shame. That

is why He told them: if I have not done these mighty works in your midst you would have an

excuse, but now that I have showed all these mighty works in your midst, you have no

defense to make. If God reveals Himself to you, He does it so that you may forsake sin. If you

are sick, and God heals you, He does it so that you may forsake sin. If you sing and dance to

God but what God wants is that you should forsake sin. Remember the blind man whose eyes

He opened. When He found him again in the temple, He told him: "see you are now whole, sin

no more, lest worse things come unto thee."

GOD'S ONLY REQUIREMENT OF MAN

It is double punishment for whoever God has saved and goes back to indulge himself in

sin. There is no point coming to confess that you have committed fornication, theft, anger,

falsehood and have indulged in the preparations of concoctions, because God has warned you

to refrain from these sins and He does not expect you to go back to them. You argue that you

do not know what God requires of you but right now do you not know what He requires of

you? He wants you to refrain from sin. From the beginning of the world, Noah preached

about repentance, Christ preached on it. All the prophets preached that people should repent

and forsake sin. In your case, it is the quest for money, for food, for husband, for wives, for

houses, for power and for all mundane things. But God wants only one thing: it is that we

should forsake sin.

Fortunately all that we ask of God, He does it for us. Unfortunately the one thing God

has asked of us to do, we refuse. It is a pitiful thing that the entire world should deny God for

the single request which He makes to us. God does not require money or house or car from us;

all that He requires of us is that we should abstain from sin. Put this injunction to test right

from this night, refrain from sin and see if God will not exalt you and bestow every good

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thing unto you, and there will be great joy in heaven. Brethren, we do not want to be tedious

with you because this is a very short gospel, but weighty. Let our First Lesson be read.

1ST LESSON: LUKE 5:32

I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

Have you heard that? My friend, have you repented? Sinners have you repented?

Visionaries, charm remover, singer, preacher, have you repented? For twenty years now you

are singing and dancing to your God, but have you repented? Because that is the only thing

God requires from you.

THERE IS JOY IN HEAVEN OVER ALL REPENTED SINNERS

Right from the day you commit sin, you are lost, you have no fellowship with God and

you are dead. All sinners have their names in the book of death. God wants your name to be

removed from the book of death into The Book of Life. When you repent and forsake sin, God

will be happy with you. All those who commit sin are not the Children of God. God has no

business with them. His only business is with those who obey Him and forsake sin. He says

that He is not God of the dead but of the living. He is not God of the wicked but of the

righteous.

And so whenever you repent from your sins and do good there is great joy in heaven.

God can give the whole world to you out of joy. He does not require anything from us than for

us to abstain from sin. I always feel sorry when I hear someone saying that God loves him and

yet continues to sin. God loves you and you are still telling lies, you are drinking, you are

indulging in the preparation of concoction and other sins. Is that how you are repaying Him?

God gives you promotion at your place of work and you buy drinks and invite people to

celebrate with you, you spend the money derived from the promotion to buy different things.

You commit acts which do not give glory to God. Is that how you are repaying God? Can you

not see that until now, even you in Brotherhood do not know what God requires of you? Upon

all the love you have for God, if you were to know what God loves, I do not think that you

would commit sin. I believe that right from this night, none of you will commit sin again

since you love God.

IT IS BETTER TO HEARKEN UNTO GOD THAN UNTO MEN

There is great joy in heaven. What God wishes to do this year for His children who

refrain from sin is very great. Do you not realize how God loves Brotherhood? Brotherhood

does not do anything. It is where you do not commit sin and you love every person. That is all

that God requires from you. Do not pour libations, do not indulge in diabology, do not drink.

That is why God has highly exalted Brotherhood. That is why when the rulers commanded

Peter and John not to speak at all nor teach in The Name of Jesus, Peter and John answered

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and said unto them, "whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than

unto God." If somebody pleads with you to tell a lie and gives you one million dollars, of what value is it if you offend God, and have destroyed your soul and are separated from God. If

somebody buys a motorcar for you or builds a house for you because he has committed

fornication with you, of what use is that house or motor car since your soul has already

perished?

EMULATE JOSEPH

Look at Joseph, when his master's wife asked him to lie with her, Joseph said to her,

"there is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back anything from me but

thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against

God"? The moment you know what God loves and what He hates you are free. Upon the

thousands of years you have been on earth, you have been roaming about like sheep without

a shepherd. You say that you do not know what God loves and you do not know what He

hates. Sunday night is always a night for wonderful sermons. I believe that I will receive this

gospel tomorrow so that it may be made into a pamphlet and distributed to the whole world

to enable them to know what God requires of them.

VIRGINS AND THE KINGDOM OF GOD

Whenever we steal, or tell lies, or fornicate, or drink, indulge in the preparation of

concoction, or commit sin there is great sorrow in heaven. But whenever we repent and

forsake sin, there is great joy in heaven. When many people hear that we are looking for

virgins, they begin to ask what the virgins are coming to do because they have no money.

Even the virgins do not know the important thing they have done. But I am telling you that

they have done a great thing in the sight of God. There is great joy in heaven over one virgin

who surrenders himself to God. Even you do not know what a virgin is. Upon all the love you

have for God if you were to know what a virgin is before God, you would become a virgin

overnight.

THE EUNUCHS

There are eunuchs who are born eunuchs. There are other eunuchs who are made

eunuchs by man. And there are other eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the sake of

The Kingdom of God. That is why He says that we should repent. Repentance implies

surrendering yourself completely. Why we do this is that He may take us unto Himself and

through us to save the entire world. We are co-laborers with God. We are God's husbandry.

We are God's building. Do not allow any person to deceive you that there is anything pleasing

to God apart from our abstinence from sin. David was a rich man and he decided that he was

going to build a house for God. God told him not to build him a house his hands were soiled.

God does not accept the sacrifice of the wicked. He has no business with sin.

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If you are left with just one iota of sin, God has no business with you. The moment you

commit sin and call upon God, he does not listen to you. If you dance, God has no pleasure in

it. What He wants is that you should forsake sins. The world is to be pitied because you do not

know what your father hates and what He loves. What you are hearing now is the only thing

God loves. If you want to see the glory of God in you and around you, abstain from sin.

ABSTAIN FROM ALL APPEARANCES OF EVIL

There is great joy in heaven over one sinner who repents and forsakes sin. Do not

complain that you have no money and no soutane to wear to church. These are nothing

before God. Do not complain that your mates all have got children, own houses and bought

cars, these things are nothing before God. The only thing that God requires of us is that we

forsake sin.

If you build houses from here to Africa and overlay them with gold, you seek food for

everyone; God has no business with any of these things. Even if you are as many as the sands

on the sea shore, no matter how well you can speak the English language, God does not

rejoice in these, what He requires is that you forsake sin. All those who commit sin are the

lost sheep. They are all a loss to God. Christ shed His blood so that we may be saved, but we

made His blood of none effect. Well call on Jesus but He has no meaning on our lives. Building

costly houses and decorating them with gold is meaningless.

The only thing that God requires of each of us is that we forsake sin. That is the only

thing that pleases God. That is why Paul said, what things were gain to me, I count them but

lost that I may gain The Excellency of The knowledge of Christ, God hates what evil is and

loves what is good. When Christ did not drink the cup of woe and sins of the world, no one

arrested Him because God was always with Him. Immediately He drank of that cup, God

forsook Him. They spat on Him, they slapped Him and asked Him to mention who has slapped

Him but He could do nothing. That was why when He was crucified He cried, my God, my God

why hast thou forsaken me? If it were not that He had carried upon Himself our own sins

who would have arrested Him? He would be moving about without any person touching Him.

That is why He says you should not fear that which can kill flesh only, but cannot kill the soul.

What can kill both the body and the soul? It is sin. Let our Second Lesson be read so that when

you complain about the number of years you have been in Brotherhood, you have tried to

forsake sins without success. I am telling you that you have not made any effort and you do

not know what God loves.

SECOND LESSON LUKE 15:7

I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repented, more than

over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.

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Many of us think that during any launching here, if you do not give a thousand dollars,

you are not a man of God. That you will be laughed at when you give fifty dollars. You are

laughing at yourself. God has no concern with that. He wants every person to refrain from

sin. Many of us refuse to come for worship because we do not have the white soutane? What

is the white soutane before God? The moment you forsake sins, you have got the white

soutane.

REPENTANCE SUBSUMES JOY

When you abstain from sins, God will clothe you with righteousness. Have you not seen

how there is great joy in heaven? The whole world is shaking because of Brotherhood. You

know that it was because of the sin of Adam that he was driven out of the Garden of Eden. If

they did not commit sin, they would have remained still in the Garden. And there was neither

hunger nor sickness, nor problems of any kind. Therefore as by the offense of one judgment

came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one, the free gift came

upon all men unto justification of life. The lost Eden has now been regained. You look at it as

insignificant, but you do not know that you have attained the position, which Adam fell

from. Right now all the angels bow before you. The joy that is in heaven concerning this glory

is very great. What is the cause of the joy? It is because of one sinner who repents. But now we

have more than one sinner who has repented, some are vegetarians and have forsaken every

sin. When you complain that you have nothing, He does not require anything from you. The

moment you forsake sin, that is all. In the past time, you did not know what sin is. All the

churches in the world do not know what sin is but today when you commit sin, you know that

you have committed sin. And whenever you ask God for forgiveness He forgives you.

HOW MANY SINNERS HAVE REPENTED

You are aware that in Brotherhood, money is nothing, children are nothing, and houses

are nothing. The important thing here is for you to refrain from sin because if you continue

to sin you are lost. All those who commit sin are under death. That is why it is said that we

have passed from death into life because we love the brethren. Can you not realize that there

is great joy in heaven over one sinner who repents? But here is a situation very many sinners

have repented. And so there is great joy indeed in heaven. It is said that heaven shall rejoice

when one sinner repents and follows God. Go and sing this song to the entire world because

Satan has vowed that Christ will not have any followers. But right now the Children of God

have filled the entire world.

THE RAPID GROWTH OF BROTHERHOOD

People are mesmerized at the growth of Brotherhood. Every day Brotherhood

continues to soar unto greater heights and it has not yet reached its zenith. Brotherhood will

be so great that you will not hear of any other thing. Because there is great joy in heaven. Man

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did not hope that he will return to Eden. Right now you are in the Eden and the angels are

worshiping you. Trees, death, whites, blacks, and even the creation is under your feet. No

person had hoped that Adam would ever regain his lost glory again. Fortunately, he has been

restored to his first position. The animal that belongs to The King is still for The King. Man

has been seated on that throne of glory again. Can you realize or see the cause of this joy?

Have you ever seen a government without an army and it survives? You have heard that

when God brings in The First Begotten into the world, He says “and let all the angels of God

worship Him." Right now all the angels who are in heaven and on earth are worshipping Him.

There is nothing in Brotherhood other than for you to forsake sin. That is why you should be

careful that you do not commit any sin. Do not pour libation.

All that you are told not to do refrain from them. The world will lack food and clothing. There

will be sickness and deaths. But nothing will happen to Brotherhood. Every day food, wealth,

health, joy, peace and glory will flourish here.

ALWAYS SEEK TO PLEASE GOD

I purposely use to call converts to give a testimony so that you may know the

sufferings that is in the world. If you know what transpires in the world for one day, you

would realize that the world is to be pitied. Fire is burning them every day and they are in

real hell. Right from now, rather than for you to go and offend God, offend man because if

you offend God you are finished. Do not live to please yourself and do not live to please any

other person. Live to please God and you will have no problems. All those whom God has

saved and they refuse to repent, their punishment has neither beginning nor end. It is

eternal. That is why the scriptures say that whoever has tested the goodness of this glory and

goes back to defile himself in the world his last state is worse than the first. It were better for you not to have seen this Kingdom at all; than after coming to see this Kingdom you go back

into the world. Brethren, let the Golden Text be read. Listen attentively, so that you may

realize that all what we preached to you from Monday to Sunday is for you to refrain from

sin. Because the moment you forsake sins, you have no problems again.

GOLDEN TEXT MATTHEW 11:20-21

Then began He to upbraid the cities wherein most of His Mighty Works were done, because

they repented not. Woe unto thee, Chorazin! Woe unto thee, Bethsaida! For if the mighty

works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented

long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

Have you not seen that? When you complain that, when you first went into

Brotherhood, your faith was very strong. What has happened now? Have you not gone back to

commit fornication and drink and defile yourself? That is the statement that was made to

that man: now you are made whole, sin no more lest worse things befall you. When God has

saved any person and he goes back to commit sin, his punishment is double.

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WHY MANY PEOPLE LACK PEACE

That is what awaits all those to whom God has revealed Himself, and has changed them

but they become again entangled in sin. That is why you can go to somebody's house and find

food, money, cars, but there is no peace. He is complaining of trouble from witches and

enemies. No enemy or witch is troubling you. What is troubling you is your own sin because

you are under a cure. Why should you regard God as prayers? Why should you regard God as

a sorcerer? Why should you regard God as a preacher? Is that not an insult? Tomorrow you

assert that God should pray for you so that you may have money. The next day you send a

letter to God so that He can take away your court case, or so that you may have children and

motorcars, when did this insult begin?

REPENT AND BE SAVED

Have you not heard the Golden Text? Our Lord Jesus Christ pronounced curses on those

two cities which He had done mighty works but they refused to repent. Do you not then

understand the First Lesson, which says "I came not to call the righteous but sinners unto

repentance?"

Again "there is great joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than the ninety-nine,

who have no need for repentance". All those whom God has saved and yet they continue in

sin are under a cure forever, because they have crucified Christ the second time and have

exposed Him to an open shame. The only thing that lies before us is for us to abstain from sin

and follow Him. If we were to forsake sins, we would not lack anything, there would be no

shame or disgrace for us, there would be no evil afflicting us. Try it and see! The moment you

repent and forsake sin, wealth, food, money, cloths, everything will be flowing to you because

He owns everything. Brethren, one stroke of the cane is sufficient unto the wise. He, who has

ears, let him hear. May God bless His Words. Amen.

Sermon Delivered By The Father Leader Olumba Olumba Obu.

THANK YOU FATHER

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WHY YOUR PRAYERS ARE NOT ANSWERED

FIRST BIBLE LESSON: MATTHEW 5:23-24

Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath

aught against thee; leave there thy gift before the alter, and go thy way; first be reconciled to

thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.

SECOND BIBLE LESSON: 1 JOHN 1:9

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

GOLDEN TEXT: 2 Peter 1:5-9

And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith, virtue; and to virtue, knowledge; and

to knowledge, temperance; and to temperance, patience; and to patience, Godliness; and to

Godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, charity. For if these things be in

you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the

knowledge of Our Lord Jesus Christ. But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see

afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.

THERE IS NEED FOR CONSIDERATION:

Beloved, the three texts above form the basis of this sermon. All the problems that

befall you come from your inability to practice The Scriptures highlighted above. It is said

that charity begins at home. Therefore if you do not know how to arrange your house, you are

bound to have problems. A good student normally studies or does his revision at home so that

when he gets to school, he easily recollects what he had studied and as quickly puts them to

use. But a bad student is in the habit of dumping his books carelessly at home. He would then

involve himself in non-academic activities. By doing this he will surely fail his examinations

in the end. This is because he has failed to practice what he was taught. That is the reason

why those who claim to be wise are often termed as fools, for they are generally proud and

boastful. They are always taking everything for granted. But anybody who humbles himself

would study hard, giving regards to everything; and at the end, he benefits from the

experience; thus having a good result. Hence it is said that when you take good care of a tree,

it will yield good fruits.

GUARD AGAINST EVIL ACTS:

Many of you in the past had engaged yourselves in one evil act or the other, but when

you come here, you tried and changed for the better. But the question now is who do you

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think the person whose property you had stolen will regard you as when he sees you now?

There are still a lot of things for you to learn in this Kingdom, which you did not know.

This is so because I am teaching you gradually, knowing fully well that you are mere

beginners, else you become confused and run away. Many of you seem to be good only when

you come in here, but outside here you are something else. Such behavior is best regarded as

politicking before God. If you do not exhibit a good conduct in your home, how will it be

possible for you to act well outside? This explains the reason why our brother Paul stated that

brethren should not try to beg people to emulate him in his presence, that they should

voluntarily emulate his ways of life when he is not with them.

INDELIBLE (UNHEALING) SCARS:

Now brethren, there is no need for long preaching; for this is the period of "THE

CHANGE OVER." I just want to elaborate on certain aspects so that we can land safely. You

may offend somebody today, and feel that the person will easily forget it. But surprisingly for

you, one day, when he or she sees you, the offense is recalled in his memory. Such events

constitute the barrier for your future progress. That is why you are advised that whenever

you want to give an offering to God, if you suddenly remember that you had offended your

brother, you have to drop that offering there, run back home, and make peace with him.

Thereafter, you can go back to continue to make the offering. Read again the First Lesson.

FIRST BIBLE LESSON: MATTHEW 5:23-24

Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath

aught against thee; leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to

thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.

A SIN IS SIN:

Brethren, how many of you have been practicing this Gospel? Some of you do not even

know the meaning of it. No matter how minute you think your sin is, it remains a sin forever.

For this reason, you will see some people who have been steadfast with God for three years or

more, suddenly becoming confused, and finally backsliding and becoming juju men, and

begin to practice diabology. What constitutes such peoples problem is lack of practicing this

Gospel. In fact such people have never served God at all. They merely started it haphazardly,

hence they fell apart.

You must first clear the bush before setting it to fire; otherwise the fire will not burn. If

I want to take time and really expatiate on this Gospel, you will know that none of you is

worthy to declare himself as being anything. Some of you have been engaged in one problem

or the other without trying to make peace. You should know that peace making is the most

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important thing in the life of a Child of God. Therefore, since this knowledge has been

imparted to you today, go then and make peace with your brothers.

This Gospel is brought to you, to effect changes in you. It is to straighten whatsoever

was crooked in your bodies and ways of life. Therefore start now to make peace with your

brother.

SHUN SIN:

Sin is the most dreaded thing a man should not indulge in. It is what keeps the entire

world in this deplorable condition. Hence you are advised not to commit any sin. Anybody

who commits sin has no peace in this life. No matter how small the sin you commit maybe, it

remains a sin and nothing can change it from being a sin. Even if you fast for 40 days and 40

nights, you cannot stop it from being a sin, after you have committed it.

PEACE IS THE FOUNDATION STONE OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD:

Furthermore, I want you to realize that God and man are one, and that whenever you

see a man, you are seeing God. No matter how small a human being maybe, you do not have

to joke with him. If you commit abortion, you have killed someone, no matter how

insignificant the fetus would be considered.

Brethren, this is not the time to preach long Gospels. Rather it is the time for you to

make peace with the person you have offended. This is the first and foremost thing for you to

do in order to progress. Indeed this is the foundation stone of this kingdom. Go and make

peace with your brother, for this will help you move forward instead of backsliding.

Whatever sin you might have committed before your baptism into this kingdom, confess it

and then make peace with the person you had offended. It is for this reason that I keep on

reminding you of the importance of being remorseful over your sins. If you do not repent of

your sins, you cannot do anything righteous. Also if you do not confess your sin, there is

nothing righteous that can come your way. Some of you think that when you donate fact

sums of money, your sins will be forgiven. Such a belief is fallacious. If you do not make

peace with the person you have offended, whether that person is a day old child or not, you

are not worthy before God. I have been telling you several times not to joke with your fellow

human being, whether young or old, sick or healthy.

Hitherto, you did not believe that man is God. The moment you flog or abuse a child

you are doing it directly unto God. Hence anytime you want to donate anything to God,

whether it is 100 million, first of all, go back and make peace with those you had offended.

This you must do before your aiming at pleasing God. I am telling you the truth. It is not at all

beneficial for anybody to commit sin. No matter what somebody does against you, you do not

need to retaliate; for no matter how tiny you claim your sin is, it will still remain a sin.

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Recall what happened to Ruben when he lustfully had fun with his father's wife. When

his father was about to die, he cursed him and said that although he was his first son, he

would never prosper in his lifetime. Hence you find these numerous poor people in the world

today. They are from the tribe of Ruben. No matter what you give them, they never prosper,

for they have defiled their father’s bed. The same thing applies to Simeon and Levi who killed

there would be brother–in-law. Their father also cursed them, as he said, since they had killed

their brother-in-law, they must also be killed with machetes.

Therefore brethren, go now and make peace with your offenders while you are yet on

the course of ministering for God. Otherwise you would be wasting your time. Brethren, do

not entertain any doubts over this issue, so I know that some people will regard curses as

mere pronouncements. If Ruben, Simeon and Levi had known the resultant effect of their

actions, they would have remorsefully reconciled with their father. It is said that the sin

somebody had committed certainly lives after that person. Unfortunately, all those who

blaspheme against The Holy Spirit shall never be forgiven. And this is the right time for

everybody to show regret for whatsoever sin he or she might have committed. Whether you

sinned against your father, mother, child, brother, sister, grandfather, grandmother,

neighbor, etc., go and reconcile with them.

Some of you committed a very great sin by planning with your wife to abort an

unwanted pregnancy. Although you had not succeeded in aborting it, yet it was a great sin.

Therefore this is the right time for you to call your wife and tell her the plan was not good,

that she should forgive you. Your wife should also do the same thing to you.

YOUR SINS CONSTITUTE STUMBLING BLOCKS

This is an illustration about a certain bishop who had died, but rose up again. When he

was about to be buried, his corpse was taken in a coffin to the church for the last blessing.

There in the church, while the choir was singing, the members heard a certain noise inside

the coffin, they had then rushed and opened it and behold, and the bishop had risen. When

he was brought out he told the people that in the world beyond, he was not allowed to pass in.

That as he was going, he went across two separate roads. One road was marked "Pagans" and the other road was marked "Christians." He instinctively made his way towards the road

marked "Christians," and the guards there stopped him in his tracks. He then therefore tried to take the road marked "Pagans" but the people there also tried to stop him. They told him to go back. He was at that instance taken to a certain place where the names of those he had

dealt with drastically when he was alive were written. As those names was shown to him, he

was ordered quickly return to the world and make peace with all those people he had

offended.

After that the bishop was returned to the world with the strong warning that he should

reconcile with all his offenders and those that he has also offended. He was further told that

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when he would return to the world beyond, the entire road for Christians would be free for

him. When he finished telling the people of this story, he managed to move from house to

house, meeting with those whom he had offended, pleading and making peace with them. It

took him exactly 3 weeks to completely accomplish this task. Therefore beloved brethren,

what about that person you quarreled with yesterday, have you yet made peace with him?

SECOND BIBLE LESSON: 1 JOHN 1:9

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

THIS IS FOR YOUR OWN GOOD

Beloved brethren, do you know the reason why God is keeping you alive up till this

date? The reason is so that you may reconcile with your adversaries and confess all your sins.

God is the father of love, peace, mercy, etc. Therefore you must reciprocate his love by

reconciling with your offenders so that you may be forgiven and made whole by God.

Even when a cow gives birth to its young one, it lovingly uses its tongue to clean it well,

that it may look nice for people to see. In this way, you as a human being must free

yourselves from sins by confessing, regretting, and refraining from all your sins. Anytime

you want to pray, do not forget to pray for the people you have offended. Pray for their well-

being and also, do not forget to confess your sins. It is indeed essential that you should not

ignore your offenders. Do not keep on abusing them. But forgive them, and take them as your

own. Make peace with them now, for this is the reason why God is sustaining you. God's

intention for you is that in the end you will inherit the everlasting glory awaiting you in this

kingdom. A wonderful opportunity for all:

The holy change over week of reconciliation, the week of peace making, the week of

visitation to all the sick and needy people and all our brethren. It is the week of joy, peace,

freedom, etc., for all the children of God. This is the week to glorify God. This is the week to

show the greatest appreciation to God.

If you do not use this change over week to be appreciative to God for all the things he

has been doing for you, how then will it be possible for you to receive more from him? This is

the best time for you to reconcile with those you have offended. Maybe you offended them by

stealing their property, may be you fought with them, or you may have quarreled with them

because of boyfriend or girlfriend issues. Though you might have sworn never to exchange

pleasantries again with them in your lifetime, this is the right time for you to reconcile with

them. God is very loving and merciful; therefore if you regret your sins, he will surely forgive

you.

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BE REMORSEFUL

Do not claim to be righteous, and do not inquire about other's activities for nobody is

righteous except God. Christ had said, even in Luke 18:19 and Romans 3:10 that it is only The

Father who is righteous. Therefore do not see yourself as being righteous, but always pray to

the father to forgive all your transgressions, for you are not worthy in any form. Re-examine

the Golden Text.

GOLDEN TEXT: 2 PETER 1:5-9

And besides this, giving all diligence, add to your faith, virtue; and to virtue, knowledge; and

to knowledge, temperance; and to temperance, patience; and to patience, Godliness; and to

Godliness, brotherly kindness and to brotherly kindness, charity. For if these things be in

you, and bound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the

knowledge of Our Lord Jesus Christ. But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see a

far off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.

SPIRITUAL CHORUS:

When I remember what God has done for me, I will forever follow Him without turning back.

What will make you, brethren, to derail henceforth, from the path of righteousness?

What can separate you from the love of God? Remember that Christ died for you; therefore if

you love Christ you must be loving, peaceful, merciful, tolerant etc., to others. Try to put this

Gospel into practice by loving, forgiving, making peace with one another, and also giving

food and clothing and money to the needy people. When you do these, you will become a new

person entirely. A stroke of the cane is sufficient to the wise. Let he who has ears to hear,

what The Holy Spirit has imparted to the world. May God Bless His Holy Words. Amen.

THANK YOU FATHER

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THE END OF TIME

FIRST BIBLE LESSON: MATTHEW 12:29

Or else how can one enter into a strong man's house and spoil his goods, except he first bind

the strong man? And then he will spoil his house.

SECOND BIBLE LESSON: MATTHEW 11:28

Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

GOLDEN TEXT: ROMANS 10:12-13

For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich

unto all that call upon Him. For whosoever shall call upon The Name of the Lord shall be

saved.

INTRODUCTORY CHORUS

Call upon me in the time of trouble, call upon me I will answer you.

YOUR REAL SOURCE OF HELP

Brethren, the above song forms the theme of this Gospel. Many people think that there

exists another source of salvation other than calling on the name of God. This is the end of

time that had been foretold. It is a time that had often been foretold. It is a time in which all

the inhabitants of this earth should go to God on bended knees. It is therefore practically

unprofitable and a sheer waste of time, energy, and money for any man to go to the native

doctor, soothsayer, or medical doctor for a cure or salvation. Seek after God and go to him

urgently and on bended knees. Go to God with all your problems for he will not fail to answer

you. Whatever diagnosis a physician, a necromancer, or a seer may come up with as regards

to your problem, is false; and the solution to your problem lies not with them. The only

solution to the problem of mankind lies in seeking for God. Go to him on bended knees and in

supplication and with a penitent heart, for he will surely receive you.

You should prostrate before him and confess your sins for he alone is capable of

forgiving you. No physician or native doctor or seer, can answer you when you are faced with

problems. None of them can forgive you of your transgressions or change you. Only The Holy

Spirit is capable of doing this. Go to God for he alone has the answer to all your problems.

Mankind has rebelled against his Creator, becoming the Biblical prodigal son. The parable of

Our Lord Jesus Christ has thus been fulfilled this day. It is high time we all turned to God or

else it will be too late. This is not a period to request for mundane things.

Now is time for us all to present ourselves before God and ask Him to use us in

accordance with His Will. This is the time of mercy, and the door of compassion has been

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flung open to mankind. The end of time is drawing nigh and repentance might be rather late

for any man who fails to take this opportunity.

THE SOURCE OF YOUR PROBLEM

Your problems do not come from your parents, husband, wife, children, community, or

government, but from the sins you commit and you have refused to refrain from. Our Lord

Jesus Christ did illustrate it well in the parable of the prodigal son. A certain man had two

sons, one day, the younger of the two sons met his father and requested for his own share of

the father's inheritance. His father obliged and gave him his share accordingly. After taking

it, the son departed to a strange land. There, he squandered the whole wealth in drinking,

smoking, enjoying with women generally, and living a deplorable life. He eventually

exhausted the whole money and begged to be given remnants of food usually thrown to pigs.

One day after much suffering, he regained his senses and remembered his father's estate

with many laborers, and how he used to feed them. So he finally resolved to return to his

father. He summoned up courage to go to his father on bended knees and with a penitent

heart. He said:" I will arise and go to my father and will say unto him, father, I have offended against heaven and before thee, I am not worthy to be called thy son, but take me back as one

of your hired servants. (Luke 15:11-12)

It is therefore the height of insolence and disregard for anyone to ask God to give him a

child, wife, husband, money, or anything. Man should always be praying to God for

forgiveness of his sins, because man has derailed from the path of rectitude and man has

fallen short of God's grace. What we should do daily is to confess our sins and ask God for his

forgiveness. That is exactly what is expected of all human beings, irrespective of your race

and color. This too is the cause of untold hardship and suffering in the world today. The

present situation of things in the world is the result of God's presence on earth.

He wants the entire humanity to worship him with penitent hearts. Let no man contemplate

suicide as a solution to the present situation in the world. Do not think of running away from

your country to any other place because He is everywhere. Whether you climb to the peak of

a mountain, or go into the abyss, there is no salvation for you except you come to God on

bended knees. None of these things and places hold salvation for man. If you come to him

with a penitent heart, he will surely wipe away both your sins and tears. For he is God of

mercy and compassion and he is ever ready and willing to forgive anyone who is penitent. If

any person should trace your problems to juju, witchcraft, apparition, mermaid, or any evil

force, do not believe. The real source of your problem is your sinfulness. The people of the

world are so afflicted because they have forsaken God and stood far away from Him. As the

heaven is higher than the earth, so also is God's wisdom beyond human comprehension.

(Isaiah 55:9) The First Lesson states clearly that man is the architect of his fate. It is also

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stated in the scripture that: for whom the lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son

whom he receiveth.

Hebrews 12:6

No person therefore can get into the house of a strong man and plunder his goods except he

binds his hands and legs first. Therefore God has not only bound the hands and legs of the

entire inhabitants of the world, but He has also sealed their eyes and ears.

Both the white and black races claim to be wiser than God and some claim that God

does not exist at all. The question is: "Are men able to detect the source of their affliction?"

Those who claim to be God, have they been able to provide solutions to the world's problems?

Can you imagine God's patience and mercy? The whites have tried their utmost to create a

human being and other things far beyond their knowledge. This explains why they (the

whites) arrogate to themselves the status of Gods and would not believe that God exists at all.

No man takes God and His affairs seriously. People keep on enlisting the help of secret

societies and cults, in search of powers. They research into various spheres, scientifically and

spiritually, but to no avail. These are mere exercises in futility. They can never get any

meaningful solutions to the real problem that way.

Church denominations are founded all over the world. Some are named after families

that founded them. But has that provided the solution to man's problems? All these things

that men do are meant to glorify themselves. Neither the church denominations nor any

group of people have provided any solutions to the world's problems. When God deemed it fit

to send His Only Begotten Son to earth, He first of all sent John the Baptist as His forerunner.

Man had fallen short of God's glory and grace. That was why He sent His Only Begotten Son to

come and shed His precious blood for the remission of man's sins and to draw man close to

God.

Christ Himself did say: "Nevertheless I tell you the truth; it is expedient for you that I

go away, for if I go not away, The Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send

Him unto you." (John 16:7).

He also said in another passage: "I have many things to say unto you, but ye cannot

bear them now. Howbeit, when He, The Spirit of Truth is come, He will guide you into all

truth: for He shall not speak of Himself; but whatsoever He shall hear, that shall He speak;

and He will show you things to come. He shall glorify me for he shall receive of mine, and

shall show it unto you. All things that The Father hath are mine: therefore said I that He shall

take of mine and shall show it unto you." (John 16:12-15) How many church denominations

and individuals have practiced the injunctions of Our Lord Jesus Christ? Rather, mankind is

busy with learning things of the world- carnal teachings that would lead him only to

destruction. It is worthy of note that money, knowledge of science and technology or secret

societies cannot bring salvation to mankind. This time is hard and unfavorable for anybody

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who wishes to continue in disobedience and sinfulness. It is really pathetic that the

inhabitants of the world have eyes but cannot see, they have ears, but they cannot hear, and

they have minds but they cannot think. Man thus is ignorant of what is happening around

him. He has failed to give a thought to the events around him and their causes. Take this

message to all the corners and to all countries of the world. Take it to the blacks, the whites,

young or old, rich or poor; take it to the weak, the strong and to the governments all over the

world.

They should be informed that they themselves are the sources of their problems; that

they have forsaken God who created heaven and earth and all the things therein. As a result

of this disobedience, God has personally tied the hands and legs of man. Man must surrender

to his Creator, recognize and worship Him. In order to have peace, it is a must that man

should listen to the instructions of God and carry them out. Man should pray fervently for

himself.

THE REIGN OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

This is the reign of The Holy Spirit, which is built on love, truth, peace, perseverance,

mercy, and all the virtues. People continue to steal, quarrel, fight, and kill, indulge in idolatry and live abominably. Do you not know that now is the reign of The Holy Spirit, which is built

on love? It is stated in the scripture that: Where there is no vision the people perish. (Proverbs 29:18). Therefore, this is a golden opportunity for all to hearken to His clarion call and repent.

The entire world is still filled with sins. That is why the people are now tied, both hands and

legs in order to bring them to submission. Governments, business organizations, churches

and indeed the entire inhabitants of the earth are rendered weak and incapacitated. Instead

of progress, there is now retrogression as a result of the disobedience of mankind. Famine,

diseases, wars and various pestilences are the order of the day, far beyond the understanding

of man. Nobody knows the solutions to these problems. The answer is simple: let us all turn to

God on bended knees and with pertinent hearts, for he will save us.

Meetings and conferences are held daily the world over, and decisions are taken, yet,

there is no solution. Researches are done and treatises written on various problems, yet the

problems are far from any solution. All these efforts are in vain. The only solution to man's

problem is God himself who gives salvation and peace. Are people not aware of the fact that their suffering and predicaments are clear indication of God's displeasure with human

activities? For man to experience peace and joy and prosperity, he must flee from evil and

refrain from sins. The academics, the technocrats and scientists are at their wits end. The

soothsayer and seers cannot predict or foretell anything meaningful. Industries all over the

globe are folding up. What is responsible for all these? It is a clear indication of God's hand in the affairs of man and a manifestation of His wrath upon the world.

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The only solution for man is to retrace his steps by going back to God his Creator.

Whatever man is experiencing now is the tip of the iceberg, in other words, it is a police

action because the real calamity is yet to come. Withdraw your membership of secret

societies, refrain from stealing, smoking, drinking, and other forms of vices, and go to God

with a penitent heart. Nobody should waste his time and energy condemning another person

or church denomination. That alone is like adding salt to injury. God has not taken the people

of the world unawares with the situation they find themselves. These are the things that have

long been spoken of. If you refer to The Gospel, you will see everything clearly stated by God

that, He would shake both the heavens and the earth at the close of the age. Therefore do not

go to any person, seeking for salvation, for he, the Holy Spirit, has incapacitated everybody,

and he has rendered human knowledge useless. Re-examine your life and ways now.

FIRST BIBLE LESSON: MATTHEW 12:29

Or else how can one enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he first bind

the strong man and then he will spoil his house.

WHERE ARE THE MEN OF VALOR?

Where are the mighty men of the world today? Where are the most powerful witch

doctors and necromancers? Where are the world's eminent scientists, astrologers, the

economists and the world leaders? Have they been able to provide any solution to the present

situation in the world?

We need to go back to God with penitent hearts for he is love and the only answer to

our problems. Apart from God there is no salvation for mankind. Any problem that is beyond

man's ability must be handed over to God. People should now realize that all the problems

which could not be solved by human beings are directly from God as punishment. In such

cases only God himself can provide solutions.

For example, minerals are produced, crops cultivated and money minted; yet the world

continues to be in want. Inflation spirals daily, and unemployment increases by leaps and

bounds. Even in America where jobs used to be in surplus, the unemployment rate now

scares even their renowned economists. Countries embark on deportation of both legal and

illegal aliens, for the purpose of easing unemployment and other economic burdens, yet

these problems persist. The more the foreign nationals are repatriated, the more the

problems of the economy. The solution to these problems lies not in sacrificing to idols,

spilling human blood, sending people to prison, or struggling for parcels of land. It is also

vain for people to get involved in endless litigations. Know that except a disease is properly

diagnosed, no cure could be affected. Except the correct and most potent medicine is

prescribed, how can the disease be cured?

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Christ openly said: "And if any man hear my words and believe not, I judge him not; for

I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not

my words hath one that judgeth him: the words that I have spoken, the same shall judge him

in the last day." (John 12:47-48) The consequences for those who disobey His voice are terrible.

This is the time for all the wanderers to return home. The world has derailed from the path of

rectitude and God wants all to return to Him now. He made it clear that He came not to judge

the world, but to save it. All His injunctions are in our own interest. For instance we are

warned to refrain from stealing, fornication, adultery, hatred and malice, all these are aimed

at uniting us with God. The condition under which man finds himself is a direct repercussion

of his transgression. You should discard every mundane teaching and practice God's

injunctions. Do not get involved in idolatry and the worship of graven images.

Peace and unity have eluded the entire world in various governments and church

denominations. Families, communities and nations are at daggers drawn and their problems

are endless. The only source of peace, unity and prosperity is God. All the political and

economic problems faced by the world today can never be solved by human imagination and

wisdom.

Resources meant to be used in developing local governments; states and nations are

diverted to private coffers. Only a few individuals and their immediate families benefit from

such public funds. The more the number of states and local governments, the greater the

dimension of the problems faced by the people. There are cases of embezzlement of public

funds all over the world. Public officers are looting their regional treasuries. In spite of the

huge revenues received from the sale of natural resources, nothing positively is done to

alleviate the suffering of the ordinary citizen because of mal-administration and dishonesty.

The socio-economic condition of the people is far from being improved. The reason is that no

person or government agent seeks after love and dedication but after selfish interest. The

proliferation of states and local governments, as witnessed in Nigeria for instance, has not

helped matters. Instead, the exercise has brought about numerous problems and hardships.

This is so because the problem of Nigeria has nothing to do with the creation of more states

and local governments.

All the nations of the world are suffering from similar problems despite spirited

efforts aimed at mass production of different products. Tell the world to refrain from sins

and turn their hearts to God for immediate solutions to the perennial hardship and global

economic crunch. The quantity of mineral deposits beneath the earth is inexhaustible; but

since they did not bring about our problems, they can neither provide solutions to them. We

have all denied God and deserted Him, therefore, in order to direct our attention to Him, He

has bound us, hands and legs. The only solution now is for us to go to him on bended knees

for repentance of our sins. As a merciful father, he will save us and take away our problems.

He is the king of peace, the father of love and life, the greatest teacher and the fountain of

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mercies. Since God is merciful, let us all kneel before His feet and He will have mercy upon

us.

This is not the time for anyone to boast about anything. Whether you are a white man

or a black man, rich or poor, do not boast about your position and do not weep because of

your condition either, but turn your mind to your Creator for salvation. Of what importance

is your status as a white man or a black man? What do you gain from the riches of the world

without gaining eternal life? What do you lose if you gain eternal life without the riches of

the world? You claim to have immense power and wisdom, and to have founded a certain

church denomination. The question is, what added advantage has that brought to you over

the other person?

VIOLENCE BEGETS VIOLENCE

If you claim to be the president of a country with immense powers, the question is, of

what benefit has that been to you as regards to your salvation? Or have your powers and

status enhanced the betterment of the people's predicaments? Have you not used your

position to oppress and defraud the people? You loot public treasury, embarking on white

elephant projects with little or no economic value, just to boost your ego. You assume the

mantle of leadership through bloodshed, systematically eliminating your opponents in order

to consolidate your bloody reign. Who amongst the leaders of the world has not spilled blood

in one way or the other in order to rule? What solutions have the violent changes brought to

the welfare of the people? When Peter severed the ear of the high priest's servant, Our Lord

Jesus Christ told him to put his sword into its place, for, those who took up the sword would

die by it. (Matthew 26:52) This explains why one person is killed by another and the chain of

killings continues unabated.

God has enjoined man to refrain from killing, stealing, and other atrocious acts; for

whatever a man sows, same shall he reap. (Galatians 6:7) In other words, whatever you do to

your fellow man, same shall be done to you in return. This is not the time for anyone to seek

for a husband, wife, children, wealth or anything mundane for such things are worthless and

unprofitable. This is the right time to seek for Jehovah God and his Christ now on earth in

order that peace and prosperity will reign in the entire world. That is the only source of our

salvation. Read the Second Lesson once again.

SECOND LESSON: MATTHEW 11:28

Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest.

THE MOST HIGH IS AWARE OF THE SITUATION IN THE WORLD

Why do you not listen to The King of peace and the God of love and be saved? It does

not cost you money or anything to turn to God and have eternal life. Does it not occur to you

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that He is perfectly aware of all the things going on in the world? He has not asked you the

nature of your problems but He has solutions to them. He wants all those who labor and are

heavy laden to come to Him and obtain rest. Therefore whatever your predicament, come to

Him for He will give you rest. The whites are thinking of disarmament. They want to put a

stop to the production and sale of deadly weapons because of their long lasting effects. But

have they? Stealing, idolatry, among other vices are part of the most destructive weapons to

mankind. These are the very things man must first of all stop in order to obtain peace and

rest. It is high time we returned to our Creator and Master. Until we practice the teaching of

Our Lord Jesus Christ, i.e. Love one another, our problems will persist.

It would not have cost the people anything to elect their leaders into various public

offices, if they had allowed the love of God to prevail. It is because of man's deceitful

tendencies and selfish motives that people have to contest for political offices and would do

everything possible to win. If your intention is genuine, why must you force the very people

you want to serve to vote you into power? If the people had lived in love and with the fear

God, they would have elected a candidate of their choice, a worthy and popular person to

pilot their affairs with the love of God.

What good thing can a president, a governor, or a legislator without the fear of God

do? Any administration run and sustained by the force of arms can never address itself to the

problems of the people. Cases of armed robbery attacks persists in spite of executions by

firing squad to deter the bandits. The whole world has turned away from God. But this is the

time for mankind to retrace his steps and seek after his Creator God and he will have real

peace and prosperity. It is written in the book of Psalms: "Except The Lord build the house

they labor in vain that build it; except The Lord keep the city, the watchman watcheth but in

vain." (Psalm 127:1) You should always note the above quoted verse from the scripture. Do not waste your time in watching and building anything for yourself because it is only God who

can watch and build a nation. Are you sure that it is God who has mandated you to keep

watch or build or conduct elections? Can you see why you fail? In 1979, Nigeria spent a

fortune to restore democracy.

Ironically, the whole exercise was brought to naught and all the resources wasted

because only thieves were elected into various offices. Right now the march to the third

Republic is on and you find that two brothers are fighting over one position or the other. Each

of them is ready to go to any length to prevent the other from winning. What really is the

cause of this? What good thing could be derived from such hooligans when they finally take

up the mantle of leadership? Until the world finally realizes that it is love alone that reigns

and that whoever possesses it needs not campaign for any position to be elected, the present

trend of events will persist.

The Holy Spirit is in the world but the inhabitants of the world do not know Him.

Whether the world knows Him or not, this is the reign of The Holy Spirit. In short, God's

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government has fully started. In order to be on the safe side, it is expedient that the world

leaders should peacefully surrender the ruler ship and governance to the owner now. If you

recognise your God and cling to him, all will be well with you because he is truth and life. The

world continues to gaze into the sky, expecting Our Lord Jesus Christ to descend, whereas He

has for long, set up His Divine Administration. He has nothing to do with killing, idolatry,

division, and anything sinful. The only thing that reigns in God's Kingdom is love. A

pertinent question is asked in the scripture: "For what shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his soul?"(Mark 8:36).

THE WORLD IS IN A STATE OF SQUALOR

The trend of events in the world as a result of the rush-rush attitude of people is

amazing. There is much cheating, squandering of money, and looting of public funds. The

people are exposed to a state of hopelessness and squalor. Now the situation is that of

survival of the fittest. People these days violate natural laws with impunity to get their way.

Now is the time for man to stop these wicked activities and return to God for salvation. This is

not the time to cheat, oppress or kill others. God is the owner of everything, including man

himself. If we desire power, love and truth, we should seek after God, for in God there is no

lie, no deceit, no oppression. If you receive bribe to elect a particular candidate into an office, do you not think that such a person would want to recover and defray all his expenses before

thinking of the general interest of the masses? It is in view of this situation that many

politicians regard politics as an investment and not as service to humanity.

Many world leaders loot public treasury and keep whatever they steal in foreign banks.

When such leaders eventually die, the money is suddenly frozen and taken over by the

foreign government, yet their people suffer at home. Except we are truly repentant and go

back to God, problems on earth will continue endlessly. Christ has therefore called on all the

inhabitants of the world, all those who labor and are heavy laden to come to Him and have

rest. He has taken over the control of everything that causes man to be proud and

disobedient. Except man returns to his Creator, man will continue to be in trouble and in

chains. We are all naked before God. This Gospel with its revelation is being given so that the

entire inhabitants of the world can be duly informed of the impending doom. A city without

a prophet is ruined, and that is the more reason this Gospel should be disseminated

throughout the world. I have been waiting all this while to hear who will come out with the

real solution to the problems plaguing the world.

No one has come up ever since and now I am making this declaration to the whole

world that they should return to God if they desire peace and prosperity. All the afflictions

that plague mankind are brought about by His angels. The ants, the mosquitoes, flies, rain,

sun, lightening, thunder, earthquake, drought, fire, and so on, are all God's angels and

messengers. God can use these things to inflict disease, pain, sickness, starvation, and death

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upon the earth, if mankind offends Him. All the political, economic, social and religious

problems that afflict the world are products of man's disobedience to God. The world should

have now grown to a stage where it should be problem-free. Man should now be speaking

directly with his Creator and enjoying His goodness. He is ready to show His abundant

mercies and love to mankind.

He is peace, truth, love, patience and all the good virtues you can think of. He rules the

world with His virtues. Go to Him with your problems and He will surely answer you. We

have only one Shepherd and as a matter of necessity, there will be only one flock. Testimonies

are given by various people about the power in Brotherhood of the Cross and Star to solve any

form of problem. Those who read this gospel and receive baptism into Brotherhood of the

Cross and Star will have their problems solved. The soothsayers, witch doctors, physicians

and similar people are quite aware of the fact there is no more power in their arts. Their

source of power had for long been completely cut off. The robbers, the deceivers, the

governments, the murderers are now rendered powerless. People keep on consulting them

out of ignorance and fear. This is the time for everyone to help himself.

GOD ABHORS COUP D'ETAT

Within a short period of time, which the Nigerian government has not been toppled,

have you not noticed a remarkable change in the country? Frequent and abrupt changes of

governments contribute to the woes of many countries. It is The Holy Spirit that causes all

the things on earth, including activities during the present military regime in Nigeria. The

Biblical Prodigal Son returned to his father empty handed. On his arrival, his father did not

reject him but received him warmly. He ordered his servants to slaughter the fatted calf to

celebrate his return. He was clad in new and expensive clothes. Everything suddenly changed

for him. That is exactly what God expects everybody to do. He is ready to receive us anytime

we turn a new leaf. Often people would say this is nothing to which we should call the name

of God; it is not God's business. If it is not God's business, whose is it? For now, The Holy Spirit takes dominion over everything in the world. Whether you are a Jew, a Pharisee, Gentile,

Sadducee, Greek, Nigerian, British, whatever you are, you are owned by God. God does not

discriminate; He gives equal treatment to all.

THE CASE OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH

Before the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, God warned them: "To what purpose is

the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? Said The Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings of

rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs or of the goats. When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my

court? Bring me no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons

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and Sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot, away with. It is iniquity even the solemn

meeting.

Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me;

I am weary to bear them. And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from

you; yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. Wash ye,

make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes: cease to do evil,

learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the

widow. Come now, and let us reason together, saith The Lord: though your sins be as scarlet,

they shall be white as snow; though they be red as crimson, they shall be as wool. If ye be

willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land." (Isaiah 1:11-19) On the other hand He further warned: “But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the

mouth of The Lord hath spoken it." (Isaiah 1:20) If Sodom and Gomorrah had accepted God's

condition and gone to Him, they would not have perished.

Our Lord Jesus Christ gave an assurance before His ascension: "He that believeth and is

baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. And these signs shall

follow them that believe; in my name they shall cast out devils; and they shall speak with new

tongues; they shall take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly it shall not hurt them.

They shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover." (Mark 16:16-18). What then does it

cost you to get out of bondage and go back to God? What would you lose? Many people who

have baptized into this Kingdom have testified of good luck and fortunes upon baptism. A

certain brother who was a beneficiary of such sudden change was so surprised that he

decided to investigate Brotherhood of the Cross and Star, its origin and activities, right from

Biakpan to Calabar, its headquarters, and finding no foul play or anything incriminating, he

left and shouted for joy. Therefore, brethren, God does not charge you any fee to come to

Him. He rather flings the gate of His mercies wide open for all those who accept Him and

repent, to pass through. Preach this Gospel to the entire world and to the unbelievers, tell the

so-called world powers to disengage from the production of arms and follow God, that, this is

the era of The Holy Spirit and He has come to reign forever. Therefore, they should give peace

a chance to prevail. Read the Golden Text once again.

GOLDEN TEXT: ROMANS 10:12-13

For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: For the same Lord over all is rich

unto all that call upon Him. For whosoever shall call upon The Name of the Lord shall be

saved.

THE OWNER OF THE VINEYARD HAS COME

God is not for any specific group of people or nation; he is for all. The same God is for

the blacks, the whites, men, women, young, old, weak, strong, rich and poor. He is God of all

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and is ever ready to help those who call upon him. Events around the world and even here in

brotherhood point to the fact that God is here on earth. All these things provide enough

evidence for you to go into the world to tell the people that the owner of the world is here.

Brotherhood of the Cross and Star does not approve idolatry, medication of any kind, nor

membership of any secret society and the rest of the vices. This is because we are well

fortified.

A TESTIMONY

A brother from Adoni once testified at 34 Ambo Street, Calabar that he suffered from

tuberculosis for twelve years and he was vomiting blood. After going round the world in

search of a remedy, he was finally brought to 34 Ambo Street in 1975. That as soon as The

Father placed His hands on his head, he fully recovered. Since then he is hale and hearty. Not

only this but also, this brother became very rich. He built a beautiful story building and had

so much wealth that the people in his community doubted his source of wealth. Two people

who rose against him as a result of his God given wealth became mentally deranged in the

course of their diabolical investigation. Others who were against Him finally came back to

plead for forgiveness when they found that they could not destroy him. They told him that

they did not know that his wealth was from his God.

But about forty necromancers who had also attempted to do away with this brother

came to him and asked him to leave the community because they could not contain the

power of Olumba Olumba Obu. According to this brother, he rebuffed these evil men and

even went out to the village square to announce to the whole community that all powers

from witchdoctors have been rendered useless and powerless. That the only solution to man

now is to turn to the living God who is now on earth. As a result of the overwhelming power

of The Holy Father, the forty necromancers have now baptized into Brotherhood of the Cross

and Star and all their charms and amulets burnt to ashes. So you should go into the whole

world and inform the people to run away from their former ways and turn to God for

salvation.

Whoever persecutes a member of Brotherhood of the Cross and Star can never go scot

free. Even if a whole community should rise against you the father shall overcome them for

you. Tell the world to flee from evil and every form of unrighteousness and follow God, for as

He did to the Israelites so shall He do to the Gentiles in this generation. Apart from members

of Brotherhood of the Cross and Star, no other people are commissioned and empowered to

carry this divine message to the world. You are hereby asked to come to God and He will

surely forgive you. Once you surrender your body and soul to Him, He will bless you and

protect you.

Do not preach to the people that they should come to Brotherhood of the Cross and

Star. Tell them to flee from unrighteousness and go to God with penitent hearts for he will

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wipe away their tears and give them rest. A stroke of the cane is enough for the wise. May

God Bless His Holy Words. Amen.

THANK YOU FATHER

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BAPTISM IN BROTHERHOOD OF THE CROSS AND STAR:

GO INTO THE WORLD AND TELL THEM ABOUT MY TEACHINGS

FIRST BIBLE LESSON: MATTHEW 24:14

"And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all

nations; and then shall the end come."

SECOND BIBLE LESSON: MARK 16:15-16

And he said unto them, "Go ye into the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned."

GOLDEN TEXT: 1 CORINTHIANS 1:20-21

"Where is the wise? where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this world? hath not God

made foolish the wisdom of this world? For after that in the wisdom of God the world by

wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that

believe."

The Gospel of today, (Sunday, March 1st. 1992), must be spread all over the world both

in radio, television and in the print media. It is said that the children of God and the angels

are those who shall judge the world (1 Corinthians 6:2). A handful of people in the world are

watching, waiting, and they are still looking out to see when this would come to pass. Already

judgment is going on. You have heard an eloquent testimony of that brother from Rivers

State (Nigeria), who went into a trance, and he saw how the great judgment of God was being

delivered against those who do not follow the path of rectitude. That is the reason you heard

from the First Bible Lesson that "this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached to all nations; and then the end shall come."

WHATSOEVER MEANS YOU CAN USE TO SPREAD THE TEACHINGS OF GOD, DO IT

I have already given you this gospel before. The stage we are now at is known as The

Season of God's Mercy, where judgment is beginning in the house of God. You will also recall

the testimony a certain brother gave about a strange dream he had. He had seen that people

were being swept aside by an ill wind. And when he inquired in that dream about the

interpretation and significance of that dream, he was told that those swept aside by the wind

are those who still indulge in the senseless habit of eating meat and fish. I have warned you

several times to refrain from committing these sins, such as telling lies, stealing and

fornication. All these vices tantamount to the Judgment of God. The kingdom that we are in is

the highest court in the world. I am not talking about a prayer house. If you are a Christian, a

Muslim, or Hindu or Buddhist etc., the moment you believe and you are baptized you shall be

saved. If you are a pagan, a juju priest, etc., once you refrain from all the diabolical ways of

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the world, and you become baptized into Brotherhood of the Cross and Star, and if you

believe in this name, you shall be saved.

GOD IS IMPARTIAL

I do not say partial, but I say impartial. God does not cheat any person, irrespective of

your tribe, creed, or religious inclination. Once you believe and in this name and become

baptized, you shall be saved. You have to go to all the corners of the world and impart these

teachings to those who have not heard about me before. It is not by building a hut and going

there every day and you start barking and wailing in Jesus’ name or calling on this or that

name that you are saved. These would never save you. Your duty does not stop at building

cathedrals or bethels here and there. Rather you are to go all the corners of the world and tell

the world about these recondite teachings of our lord Jesus Christ that whosoever shall

believe and be baptized shall be saved. Your work is limited when you erect a small building

or bethel and you perform healing and other forms of spiritual services. A great number of

people have not heard about Brotherhood of the Cross and Star and my teachings. But a time

shall come when the world shall know and hear about Brotherhood. That is why many people

harbor doubts about Brotherhood, claiming that since they were baptized before in their

various churches in the world, that how come they are being asked again to baptize into

Brotherhood of the Cross and Star. That is the reason many of them cannot come into

Brotherhood of the Cross and Star. The moment you conceive this thought within you, you

are gone. Others erroneously claim that since they have given alms to the poor and the needy,

that they are saved because they have done the injunctions of God. You are equally lost.

IF YOU DO NOT BELIEVE IN THIS WONDERFUL NAME AND GET BAPTIZED, YOU SHALL

PERISH

You have heard the testimony of the former staunch member of Cherubim and

Seraphim Church Movement the other day. He claimed he was all and in all and one of the

gurus in the movement. When the call of God reached him, God instructed him to go and get

baptized along with his entire family and other members of his household, otherwise he was

going to be transferred to the great beyond with his entire family. When he harkened to the

directive of God, he was saved with his family from the imminent obliteration. God does not

save us because of our righteousness but out of His grace and mercy. If you are an herbalist,

necromancer or an occultist, the moment you come before God, prostrate and confess your

sins, believe and get baptized and in addition you denounce all the diabolical things you had

indulged in before, you shall be saved. I have warned you to stop stealing and to flee from

committing fornication and crime. I equally told you that the only way out is to baptize and

receive the Holy Spirit and you will be saved. Once you do not have all the virtues of God in

you, you have no share in the kingdom of God. You perform miracles by raising the dead,

healing the sick, but you refuse to accept baptism, who will help you when you pass away?

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Clear the bush and leave it for me and I will set the fire. Spread this gospel of truth to the

entire world to the big personalities in the world and whether they accept you or not should

not bother you, for I will carry out the other aspects of it.

ALL THE GREAT AND MIGHTY WORKS DONE HERE IN BROTHERHOOD OF THE CROSS AND

STAR ARE DONE THROUGH THE ACCEPTANCE OF THE TEACHINGS AND THE BAPTISM OF

GOD

You are aware that for someone to accept baptism is not an easy task. Some people

have remained in their denominations for years, and they have not received baptism. I have

not told you to pressure them to be baptized and become saved. This is because if the father

were to reveal the significance of baptism to us, especially the day we are baptized, we should

be celebrating feast on every other anniversary of that particular day throughout the rest of

our lives. This is because it is the very day we are baptized that all our sins of the past

generations were cleansed and we became changed unto the Holy Spirit. If someone comes to

you to ask you about the intricacies of Brotherhood of the Cross and Star, do not say

anything. Let the one get baptized first before you pay him or her any attention. You are now

in BCS and you believe someone who gives you vision and extracts charms from your body.

What about baptism? In the case of baptism, money is not required. Baptism does not cost

you anything provided you believe in this name. Our Lord Jesus Christ told Nicodemus that

unless he was born again that he would not enter the kingdom of God. Nicodemus asked Our

Lord Jesus Christ how he could be born again, when he was old and already a full-grown man.

The answer that Christ gave him was that unless Nicodemus was baptized in the name of the

father, son and holy spirit, he would not enter the kingdom of God (John 3:1-5). You are a

member of Amorc. If you do not denounce it and accept baptism, you shall not be saved.

WHOEVER MUST ESCAPE THE WRATH OF GOD AND ACCEPT BAPTISM, AND BELIEVE,

SHALL BE SAVED

I have told you time and time again that a brotherhood child is standing on a rock and

there is no problem for them. The undoing is that after confessing our sins, we return to

commit the same sin we had confessed over and over again. Many people are serving various

jail terms and some are in detention camps because of their disobedience to God. They were

given the power of the Holy Spirit but they refused to accept baptism and believe in God. The

same problem applies to patients in hospital wards. If only the government would allow

Brotherhood of the Cross and Star members to go to all these places: hospitals, prison yards,

police cells, etc to pray for the inmates, you will see that soon these people would be

reformed, discharged and acquitted. Anybody who is sick, ask him to confess his sins and

believe in this name and become baptized, and all will be well and the sicknesses and

tribulations would vanish. Baptism in essence means the denouncing of all mundane

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pleasures, vices, diabolical deities of the world and never again going back to commit the

various sins enumerated. Once we have complied with these, we shall be saved.

READ: MATTHEW 28:19-20:

"Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have

commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen."

If you go outside and start erecting mansions and cathedrals here and there, and you

buy musical instruments, all these things would not help you. The most important thing is to

go into the world and inform those who have never heard about me and BCS; tell them the

teachings in this kingdom. All the problems and tribulations you heard from all the nations

are because they have of their refusal to surrender and recognize the presence of God on

earth. It is your duty to go there and tell them about these teachings. Do not tell somebody to

come to BCS, for everybody is a member of BCS. The time is very short. Going on evangelical

tours in and around your localities with only your group members is meaningless. You are to

go where this gospel of truth is not heard yet and spread the truth to the people, telling them

to be baptized and have their problems solved and their supplications answered. Tell the

world about the glory of God on earth. Baptism has a deeper meaning and explanation than

how you have turned it to be. Baptism in other words means that once you believe and you

are baptized you will be saved. I know you cannot go to the big personalities in the world and

tell them to denounce their membership in the secret societies and follow God.

IT IS ONLY THE HOLY SPIRIT WHO CAN CHANGE THEM

If you are in Brotherhood of the Cross and Star and you still indulge yourself in secret

societies, know that you have no place in this kingdom. You have heard the testimony of one

of my sons this morning, (March 1st. 1992). He is a member of a State House of Assembly. He

does not have any protection for himself, as is expected of someone in the corridors of power

would want to do. He has surrendered all his entire life to God to protect him. I have told you

that Spain, and China, Japan and several other countries of the world have not heard about

Brotherhood of the Cross and Star and the teaching of God. But you are still moving around

the country, claiming to do the Father's work-when these gospels have not reached these

places. Go to these places and tell them about this God and the Kingdom. It is not that some of

these countries have not heard about this kingdom and the teachings of the Holy Spirit, but

they need somebody to explain to them better and put them right. Some of you do not know

that the pouring of libation is against the injunction of God. When a child is given birth to or

when someone dies, these rites would be performed to appease the earth Goddess. All these

superstitions are not in conformity with the doctrines of God and Brotherhood of the Cross

and Star.

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In BCS, the moment one gives birth to a child or goes on a spiritual transfer, (i.e. dies),

all we need to do is to rejoice and celebrate a love feast. The food of the spirit is love,

meekness, mercy, patience, and refraining from all manners of sin, while food of the flesh is

tea, yam, rice, gari, etc. Why the world governments have fallen is because everybody thinks

only about how to have money and all the things of world. Because of worldly things you

have forsaken spiritual power. Things can never be the same again in the world. During the

era of Our Lord Jesus Christ, He appointed some people to take charge of spiritual aspects,

while others were assigned to other necessities of life. If you do not have the Holy Spirit, you

cannot preach the gospel. Those who have the Holy Spirit in them are those assigned with the

spiritual aspects of God. It is only BCS members, the world over who are commissioned with

the mandate to go to all the corners of the world and spread these good teachings of God.

Those who will believe and get baptized will receive the salvation of God. It is not by fighting

and quarreling and by killing one another. Go out and spread the teachings of God. Tell them

to believe and get baptized and free themselves from the wrath of God. To preach to someone

who has the Holy Spirit but is not baptized, is like pouring water on the back of a hen or

giving a blind man a mirror to look at himself.

GO TO THE WORLD AND PREACH THE GOSPEL OF GOD

You are not told to go and tell someone to leave his church. Rather you are told to

preach the gospel, those who believe and get baptized shall be saved. For you to go and preach

to some people to leave their churches, when in the true perspective, all their lives and means

of livelihood are dependent on the churches, they will not mind you or take you seriously.

There is no church in the whole world which performs baptism the right way, except

Brotherhood of the Cross and Star. There is no problem if somebody is a bishop, his status not

withstanding; wherever he may belong, if he believes and accepts baptism, it is good for him.

If not, leave him to remain where he is. Do not tell people to come to BCS, because many of

them cannot preach the gospel of God. Why do you want him to come to BCS when he cannot

preach? I have told you that many of the bishops have come here into BCS and many of them

received baptism only to go back to their denominations to perform their duties just for the

purpose of keeping body and soul together. What is going on in various churches is like the

work of a civil servant, where at the end of every month, salary or wages are paid to them.

If you are not born of water and spirit, you cannot see visions, dream dreams, nor

preach the gospel of God because you are not of the Holy Spirit. Already, trouble has begun in

their various churches and they are beginning to worry that their members have scattered.

They no more have a large multitude of followers. But unknown to them is the fact that it is

in fulfillment of the time that all shall come under one flock, and there shall be only one

shepherd (john 10:16). This is exactly the stage we have arrived at. Pay your tithes and give

alms to the poor. If you are confronted with any problems, knock your head on the ground

and call on the father. (1 Corinthians 3:13) Those who refuse baptism are those who are still

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begrudging people and are those who steal and indulge in secret societies. Each time you are

asked by someone about this Kingdom (BCS), refer that person to what the scriptures say in

MARK 16:15-16. We are of the same stock, one Father; and we have to unite together. What

you have to do is to go and tell the people of the world to believe and get baptized. Those who

believe and are baptized shall be saved, and those who do not believe will be condemned.

BAPTISM IS LIKE THE GATEWAY TO HEAVEN

What separates man from God is sin. Love is practiced in Brotherhood of the Cross and

Star. Only BCS has the right to change and re-unite the entire world. Because here in

Brotherhood of the Cross and Star, money, wealth, jobs, brother, sisters, mothers and fathers

are in abundance. But what is required is faith. Anyone who believes and is baptized shall be

saved. All of us are Christ Servants and Christ Students and Ordained ones. If any of us is

confronted with any problems, let us rally around him or her. If you are a child of this

Kingdom, your duty is to go out and preach the gospel to the people of the world. The spirit is

one, but there is diversity of operations. (1 Corinthians 12:1-13) Do not condemn people, but

pay attention to the Holy Spirit. Which of you has any knowledge about what is read to us in

the Golden Text? That is why I have been shouting that you should proceed to India, Russia,

and such other places and preach the gospel of the Father to these inhabitants.

All the Communist world, I have taken absolute control. Immediately BCS gets to a

particular place, it takes control and complete domination. It has also in the same way

pleased God to use the Teachings of God to save those who do not believe. That is why Our

Lord Jesus Christ told us to be careful about the things of the world so that we might be saved.

Now you want to be a president, a governor, a member of the state assembly, so that you may

have money. Does it mean that if someone is not a president, a governor, or a member of

parliament, he can't have money? That is why here in BCS whatsoever things constitute your

needs; all those needs of yours will be supplied here. "But seek ye first the kingdom of God

and its righteousness and all other things will be added unto you." (Matt 6:33). During the era of the colonial masters and when the country attained independence, has there been any big

difference between now and then?

ALL THOSE WHO WORK FOR GOD HAVE BEEN REGARDED AND SAVED

The majority of you do not believe that you are saved right from when you were

baptized into this Kingdom (BCS). You complain that you have no money, no food, and no

clothes yet you are not hungry. God takes care of you, feeds you, and clothes you. You have

heard that one of the new civilian governors came here the other day for salvation. Why did

he not go to the big people like Benson Idahoan who owns the Church of God Mission in Benin

City, or go to some other big churches to celebrate the feast? He knows that it is in BCS that he

will receive his salvation. Yet you are here complaining of lack of food and money. Here in

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BCS it is joy, joy all over. I want you to know that the most paramount thing is to spread the

teachings of God. Most of you are living witnesses to what the Holy Spirit is using my

children to do. The General Manager of Observer Newspaper, through the spreading of the

word of God, is serving God. Journalists, too, are number one in this aspect. Their duties are

to reveal the truth to the world and to propagate the new teachings of God. Like one of my

sons in Lagos, Pastor Umoh James Umoh. Many of you have seen what the Father is using

Pastor Umoh to do through the spreading of the teachings of God, right from when he was

baptized into this fold.

But do not pray to become a journalist, because that may not be your gift. So many

professionals are coming. Among them are farmers, traders, doctors, lawyers, etc. Your duty

is to do that which is assigned to you, in your own profession, tirelessly so as not to soil the

good image of your Father because we are now entering the reign of the Holy Spirit. Whoever

is a president, a governor, or an honorable member of the state or national assembly, you

should put them into fervent prayer because Brotherhood of the Cross and Star has come to

reign. It is said that a word is sufficient unto the wise.

Let those who have ears hear. May God Bless His Holy Words. Amen.

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Document Outline

- GO INTO THE WORLD AND TELL THEM ABOUT MY TEACHINGS

Table of Contents

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13 THE FIRST STEPS TO GOD

19 SECOND STEP TO GOD

23 THE THIRD STEP TO GOD: THE CONCEPT OF EQUALITY REVISITED

41 THE FOURTH STEP TO GOD

50 WHOSOEVER COMMITTETH SIN IS THE SERVANT OF SIN

55 THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH

57 BAPTISM: CRITERION FOR SALVATION

70 NEITHER RACE NOR SKIN COLOR QUALIFIES ONE FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD

78 LOVE IS THE IDENTITY CARD OF THIS KINGDOM

86 WHERE LIES YOUR SALVATION?

90 PRACTICE THE WORDS OF GOD

93 FAITH IS AQUIRED BY HEARING THE WORD OF GOD

107 MERCY: THE SOURCE OF SALVATION

114 SEARCH FOR GOD BEWARE OF MONEY

117 IF YOU PRACTICE THE WORD OF GOD, HE WILL DELIVER YOU OUT OF TEMPTATION

137 NO CROSS NO CROWN

140 ALWAYS LISTEN TO THE VOICE OF THE LORD WITHIN YOU

149 FORGIVENESS

158 THE MAN YOU SHOULD NOT PUT UP WITH

161 REPENTANCE

170 WHY YOUR PRAYERS ARE NOT ANSWERED

176 THE END OF TIME

189 BAPTISM IN BROTHERHOOD OF THE CROSS AND STAR